The Security Service and the National Police have dismantled another three schemes used by men to evade mobilization and illegally travel abroad.

As a result of operations in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa regions, 13 organizers and participants of the schemes were detained. For bribes ranging from USD 1,500 to 12,000 they helped evaders to dodge the draft using forged medical documents.

In Kyiv region, the head of a hospital’s neurology and neurosurgery department and her accomplice, a trauma surgeon, were apprehended. They falsified medical records of their ‘clients’.

The fakes were then passed to the Medical and Social Expertise Center (MSEC), where the men’s ‘diagnoses’ were confirmed, and a disability group was assigned.

In Lviv, the former head and three officials of an inter-district MSEC have been notified of suspicion for falsifying medical histories and issuing certificates of unfitness for military service to men.

In Odesa, two heads of hospital departments and the secretary of the head of the local MSEC were detained for selling fake disability certificates to conscripts.

The officials engaged four unemployed individuals in their illegal activities, who were looking for potential ‘clients’.

All the persons involved have been notified of suspicion (in accordance with the crimes committed) under the Articles of the CCU:

• 114-1.1 (obstruction of the AFU’s lawful activities);
• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine, committed by an organized group);
• 28.2, 369-2.2 (abuse of influence, committed upon prior conspiracy, by a group);
• 366.1 (forgery in office).

The suspects face up to 9 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out by the SSU Offices in Kyiv and Kyiv region, Lviv and Odesa regions jointly with the State Border Guard Service and the National Police under the procedural supervision of prosecutor’s offices.