The Security Service of Ukraine, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the National Police have uncovered seven new schemes for evading mobilisation.
The Security Service, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the National Police have shut down seven schemes for evading mobilisation. According to law enforcement officials, the suspects offered conscripts the opportunity to avoid conscription through forged documents or helped them leave the country outside of checkpoints. They charged between 5,000 and 21,000 US dollars for such services.
In Kyiv, employees of the capital's Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine exposed the chief physician of a private clinic and the head of the neurology department of a municipal medical institution. Together with three accomplices, they sold fictitious medical certificates of health. Two people were also detained in the capital who promised to register conscripts at a critical infrastructure enterprise in exchange for money in order to obtain reservations. After formal employment, the pseudo-employees were to be sent abroad under the guise of business trips.
In addition, a family doctor was exposed in Kyiv who unjustifiably referred conscripts for inpatient treatment with the subsequent receipt of forged conclusions establishing a second or third group of disability.
In the Borodianka district of the Kyiv region, a 28-year-old entrepreneur was detained for organising the transfer of conscripts to EU countries outside of checkpoints.
In the Kirovohrad region, employees of the regional department and military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the State Bureau of Investigation, exposed the local military registration and enlistment office. According to the investigation, he organised a scheme to unjustifiably remove conscripts from military registration on health grounds.
In Zakarpattia region, the head of the district TCC was detained for illegally removing conscripts who had left the country from the wanted list. It was established that he personally entered false data into the electronic register.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, military counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine exposed a contract soldier and a mobilised soldier who were transporting draft dodgers to the border and showing them routes to cross it outside of checkpoints. According to the case file, they wore military uniforms and transported clients in a service vehicle, expecting to pass through checkpoints unhindered.
The detainees were notified of their suspicion under Part 1 of Article 114-1, Part 3 of Article 332, Part 3 of Article 362, Part 3 of Article 368, and Part 3 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. They face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The proceedings are being conducted by the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, the Brovarsky and Svyatoshinsky District Prosecutor's Offices of Kyiv, the Ivano-Frankivsk Specialised Prosecutor's Office for the Western Region, and the Kropyvnytskyi Specialised Prosecutor's Office for the Southern Region.
