Features of the Investigation of Corruption Abuses in the Medical Industry

Abstract

Kuzmenko O., Lazebnyi A., Komyshniuk Yu., Yusupov V., Herasymenko L..

On the basis of the analysis of the reporting information of international organizations to counteract medical corruption, a review of modern scientific sources on corruption in the healthcare sector, the types of corruption abuses in the medical industry are identified. The classification of corruption abuses is presented taking into account the method of committing the offense and its subject - a certain worker of the medical field. It was found that there is insufficient coverage in world information sources of procedures for investigating corruption abuses in the medical industry. There are revealed features of the investigation of corruption abuses of medical workers committed with the use of their official position, using the preparation of medical documentation, and cases of extortion and obtaining unlawful benefits. There are presented sources for obtaining information and the types of data that are necessary to prosecute a medical worker who committed offences involving corruption. Among the complex of forensic methods for investigating medical corruption, the authors focused on the consideration of key and important for proof procedural actions - examination of medical documents; examination of the place where the medical professional was given of an undue benefit; the work of the accuser (informant) of medical corruption, his interrogation; simultaneous interrogation of participants in a corruption offense in the medical industry. There was proposed procedure and tactics for interrogating the accuser, who reports about obtaining unlawful benefit by a specific medical professional. Caveat has been identified that must be applied when conducting the simultaneous interrogation of two or more persons when investigating corruption in the medical industry.