The government employee and his mother had nearly $6 million in cash and real estate holdings as far abroad as Spain and Türkiye
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has published a video of a pension agency official lying on a bed of dollar bills, after he and his mother – also a senior government employee – were arrested with nearly $6 million in apparently illicit cash.
In a statement on Friday, the SBI said its agents raided the office of the head of the Khmelnitsky Regional Center of Medical and Social Expertise, as part of an investigation into the forging of fraudulent disability certificates allowing men to avoid military conscription.
The agents found $100,000 in US dollars in the office, along with lists of men with fictitious disabilities. A further search of properties belonging to the official and her son yielded more than $5.2 million in US dollars, €300,000 ($329,000), and more than 5 million Ukrainian hryvnia…