President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on the situation with medical and social expert commissions (MSEC) and the abuse of disability by officials, he believes that Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin should bear political responsibility for the situation in the prosecutor's offices.
Zelenskyy announced this in the Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
"There should be political responsibility of the Prosecutor General for the situation in the prosecutor's offices of Ukraine," he said.
Zelenskyy noted that there were reports by the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), Vasyl Maliuk, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, regarding checks and investigations into criminal offenses. Many facts of violations and obviously false disabilities of officials have been established.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Minister of Health Viktor Liashko and Minister of Social Policy Oksana Zholnovych also reported on the steps to be taken at the government level.
The situation in the system of prosecutor's offices was separately considered, Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin reported.
"The NSDC has identified a list of decisions that will restore justice. I approved them by decree," Zelenskyy said.
In particular, the digitization of the processes of passing all stages of medical and social expert commissions, real verification of declarations of MSEC members, verification and review of unjustified decisions regarding the disability of officials and audit of relevant pension calculations, legislative changes for urgent reform of the system of medical and social expertise, as well as review of the system and mechanism for accruals of pension payments to officials of state bodies, are provided.
At the same time, Zelenskyy believes that the responsibility for the situation should now be personal.
He instructed Prime Minister Shmyhal to solve the problem at the level of central executive bodies, in particular relevant ministries, with personnel decisions.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Zelenskyy convened a meeting of the NSDC because of abuses occurring in the medical and social expert commissions and information about the massive receiving of disability groups by prosecutors.
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