The ex-deputy minister of health Mykhailo Zagriichuk and 10 other doctors were detained on suspicion of violating the law on transplantation of human organs.
Mykhailo Zagriychuk, who previously held the position of deputy minister of Zoryana Skaletska, currently works as the head of the department of transplantation and surgery of abdominal organs at the Heart Institute, which is managed by Boris Todurov.
His accomplices are allegedly doctors from the Institute of Heart of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the Volyn Regional Clinical Hospital and the Central City Clinical Hospital of Kyiv.
They are accused of organizing a scheme of "illegal extraction of anatomical materials from people who are in a helpless state and other dependent on criminals, for the purpose of their subsequent transplantation."
Criminal proceedings have been opened under part 1, 2 of article 255, part 5 of article 143 and part 3 of article 362 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - violation of the procedure for transplantation of human anatomical materials, creation and management of a criminal organization, as well as participation in it, and unauthorized actions with information processed in electronic computing machines (computers), automated systems, computer networks or stored on media of such information, committed by a person who has the right to access it.
All eleven medics have been charged with suspicion.
