“If you don't want to be on the front line, you have to pay, if you want to go on vacation, you have to pay": Head of the PIC on corruption in the army
Kyiv • UNN
The head of the PIC, Anna Skorokhod, reported cases of military personnel paying to avoid the front line and take vacations. Abuse of awards and additional payments in the high command was also revealed.
In the Defense Forces, there are cases when soldiers who are supposedly on the front line pay their commanders to avoid being on the "zero". There are also cases when soldiers pay to go on vacation or to pass a military fitness test, and there is a problem with abuse of medals. This was stated by MP, head of the Temporary Investigation Commission of the Verkhovna Rada (TIC) Anna Skorokhod during a press conference on the activities of the Temporary Investigation Commission on Military Problems, UNN reports.
One of the problematic issues is corruption in the military. Corruption both at the lowest and highest levels. We have repeatedly worked out cases where ordinary soldiers were extorted money when we have lists of "dead souls"... For example, we have 100 people on the list on the front line, but in fact there are 60-70 of them, and the other 30 transfer a "hundred" to a relative's card, or simply transfer money to the commander somewhere to avoid being on the front line. If you don't want to be on the front line, you pay, if you want to go on vacation, you pay, if you want to pass a military medical examination, you pay
She also spoke about the issue of awards.
"We also considered the issue of awards. All our staff officers are decorated with medals, like Christmas trees. They will receive their awards in two days at the front line. At the same time, the guys who have been sitting and holding the line for years, defending our country, have nothing. Or they have some kind of certificate that can only be used for wiping themselves somewhere. And yet, when you apply for an award, all the time the documents get lost somewhere. But for their own people, everything is always there. For their own people, all the awards, all the orders, everything that can be collected is there, everything is being collected," Skorokhod added.
According to her, there are also manipulations with the additional cash reward.
"...not only at the level of company, commander and brigade, ...even at the highest military command. We considered the case of a group of troops, when the commander of a group of troops was charging himself an additional "hundred" for being on the front line, without ever being there," said the MP.
Recall
Doctors of military medical commissions have instructions to recognize men liable for military service as fit for military service. There are also cases when TCCs form lists according to which certain people are not served with calls.
