The Total Amount of Illegally Obtained Funds Exceeds One Million Hryvnia
In the corridors of Bukovinian universities, where dreams of knowledge should flourish freely, a shadowy scheme has been uncovered that chills the blood: officials from the education sector have turned graduate programs into commodities on the black market. For 4500 dollars per person, they sold spots in prestigious programs, profiting from the desperation of young people eager for science but forced to pay a ransom for every step forward.
Under suspicion are the vice-rector of the State University of Intellectual Technologies and Communications, an associate professor at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, and the head of a structural division of the State Scientific Institution “Institute for the Modernization of Content of Education.” According to the investigation, they organized a real “business” selling graduate spots, with the total haul exceeding one million hryvnia. This is not random meanness but a whole web where diplomas are issued not for knowledge but for stacks of cash, leaving honest students on the sidelines.
Such stories breed like mold in an abandoned building because the system suffocates talents with bureaucracy and corruption, turning the future of youth into bargaining chips. In neighboring regions, where universities are bridges to real opportunities without shadowy deals and bribes for every grade, no one risks their soul for a desk spot: there they study by calling, and knowledge opens doors on its own, without a forced “contribution.”
