Synevo publishes details of incident with law enforcers. Police respond that offenders were not its employees

On October 15, the European Medical Laboratory Synevo received a response from the National Police to a request regarding an incident with law enforcement officers who were looking for "terrorists" in a medical facility - they denied the involvement of its employees, but advised to contact the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).

This was announced on his Facebook page by the Deputy General Director of Sinevo Mykola Skavronskyi, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

According to the Deputy Director, on August 21, several men of strong build entered one of the departments of the European Medical Laboratory Synevo, introduced themselves as SSU employees, and one of them introduced himself as a police officer, but did not show any documents.

These "law enforcement officers" demanded that all the department staff urgently show them their identity documents and asked whether any of the department's nurses were members of terrorist groups.

Skavronskyi stressed that the "law enforcement officers" behaved impudently, inspected the premises of the department, and broke into medical manipulation rooms without the permission of the nurses. They also threatened the nurses with handcuffs and detention, and obstructed patient care and medical manipulations.

In accordance with the laboratory's internal procedure, the staff of the lab asked these "law enforcement officers" to wait a while until a lawyer arrived, and then they would receive all the answers to their questions, but they did not wait and left the premises.

Skavronskyi added that Synevo, as a company that conducts absolutely transparent and official activities, sent inquiries to the SSU and the National Police to find out "what it was and on the basis of what laws".

The response from the National Police was received only on October 15 (the SSU did not respond).

"These guys who broke into the department and scared the nurses with handcuffs and strange questions about participation in terrorism - they were not police officers, and, they say, ask the SSU, maybe they were their "raccoons," the Deputy Director wrote.

Currently, the question of the involvement of law enforcement officers in the invasion and its reasons remains open.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in late February 2024, Synevo stated that it may completely suspend the work of laboratories in Ukraine due to the arrest of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).

Synevo Ukraine is part of the European network of laboratories Synevo and is part of the Medicover medical holding with its head office in Stockholm (Sweden).