Ukrainian authorities announced Friday that they had seized the equivalent of nearly 5 million euros in cash from an official suspected of having helped resisters escape military mobilization in this country facing a Russian invasion.
The National Investigation Bureau (DBR) announced that it had discovered “nearly six million dollars” in various currencies, as well as jewelry and other valuables, in the apartment of the head of the medical commission of the Khmelnytsky region (west), responsible for assessing the suitability of men for mobilization, and in his office.
The manager, identified by media as Tetiana Kroupa, and her son, director of the regional branch of the state pension fund, were placed in pre-trial detention on Thursday, DBR spokesperson Oleg told AFP. Slobodian.
Investigators discovered $100,000 in cash, false disability documents and draft lists with “fictitious” medical diagnoses in the manager’s office, the DBR said in a statement.
The family also has more than two million euros in bank accounts abroad as well as real estate properties in Ukraine, Austria, Spain and Turkey, according to the same source.
