After the investigation, the Office of the Prosecutor General did not dismiss any of the Khmelnytskyi prosecutors classified as "disabled."

The Office of the Prosecutor General has reported that during the internal investigation, it was unable to confirm any instances of unlawful disability claims among the 67 prosecutors of the Khmelnytskyi Prosecutor's Office.

Thus, none of these prosecutors with fraudulent disabilities have been dismissed to date.

This information is transmitted by the Anti-Corruption Center (ACC), which had submitted a relevant inquiry to the Prosecutor General's Office.

Earlier in November, journalist Yuriy Butusov uncovered a suspicious number of disability claims among a record number of prosecutors in the Khmelnytskyi Prosecutor's Office. This followed a search at the home of the head of the Khmelnytskyi Medical and Social Expert Commission (MSEC), Tatyana Krupa, where over $6 million was found.

The Anti-Corruption Center sent a request to the Prosecutor General's Office to learn the results of the internal investigation—specifically, whether it was possible that Khmelnytskyi prosecutors obtained disabilities by exploiting their official status.

However, the Prosecutor General's Office responded that it could not even confirm any instances of unlawful disability claims among the 67 prosecutors of the Khmelnytskyi Prosecutor's Office.

“According to the results of the internal investigation (...), it is noted that given the limitations of the means of internal investigation, it is objectively impossible to confirm or refute the information published in the media regarding the use of their official powers or status by prosecutors and the related opportunities for obtaining disabilities without conducting procedural actions and making procedural decisions in a criminal proceeding,” the Prosecutor General's Office stated in response to the ACC's inquiry.

“The Prosecutor General's Office could not confirm the forgery of disabilities, and therefore could not dismiss the prosecutors with 'disabilities',” the ACC writes.

Khmelnytskyi prosecutors with fraudulent disabilities remain in their positions and retain their powers. They will be able to work at least until the investigation is concluded, and at most until a guilty verdict is rendered by the court, which could take years, observers note.