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It's a pity the disabled person can't pretend to be Gref

It seems that it is not the New Year yet, but the masquerade has already begun: the head of Sberbank German Gref dressed in a disabled person's suit. No, this is not some modest jacket of garment factory number eight. This is an English suit designed by British experts to simulate disability. It limits the physical capabilities of a person no worse than our jackets and boots, and with its help, doctors study the condition of patients. And German Oskarovich decided in this outfit to check one of the branches of Sberbank led by him.

Unrecognized by anyone, he took a coupon and asked him to issue a loan to buy a wheelchair for 100 thousand with a monthly income of 30 thousand rubles. True, on these 30 thousand, the banker could make a mistake (something very optimistic he represents the income of a Russian disabled person), but still he was not refused an application.

Note that many of us pretend to be disabled. Someone after a morning run sits down in the underpass with a crutch and a hat, someone drives a Toyota to the parking lot and parks for free in a wheelchair with a fake ID. And only the invalid himself cannot pretend to be anyone. Moreover, Gref. And because of this, for example, 18-year-old St. Petersburg invalid of the first group Ivan Bakaidov has problems with the same Sberbank. On the Change.org petition site, Ivan said that he suffers from spontaneous muscle contraction, which is why he cannot sign documents. In particular, he cannot get a Sberbank card for transferring a pension.

“He is incompetent,” they say to my mother when we come to state bodies, Ivan writes. - But why? I study at school according to the usual program, I develop mobile applications for people with speech problems and movement disorders ... ”Ivan spoke with these developments at the UN humanitarian summit in Istanbul, at a section where they considered the problems of people with the same as his, diseases. The private problem with Sberbank, apparently, was not touched upon there.

However, some people think that there is no problem. And they advise Ivan to issue a power of attorney for someone to receive a pension. However, notarization costs money, and the power of attorney is valid for a limited period. Ivan appeals to various authorities and asks to allow disabled people to put a fingerprint on documents (this is practiced in some countries), or to use a stamp (this was even allowed in the USSR), or to issue powers of attorney for disabled people for free. His appeals get replies. But the signatures of officials under them are very picturesque, which convincingly confirms their ability to act.

Undoubtedly, German Gref is not aware of Ivan Bakaidov's problems, but as for the unusual check he invented, it deserves approval and imitation. It would be nice, say, for the Minister of Health to take a ticket incognito to a district therapist, and for the head of Russian Railways to ride in a reserved seat car with demobilization or football fans. Or maybe such checks are already underway? I remember the former head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Reimer. Is it not for the sake of checking his department that he, under the guise of a plunderer of state funds, went to the dock?