The SSU and the National Police have dismantled six new schemes used by military-aged men to evade mobilization.

10 organizers have been detained in several regions of Ukraine. For bribes of USD 3,000 to USD 20,000, they helped men evade conscription using forged documents.

In Chernihiv region, the SSU uncovered a city council member who facilitated illegal enrolment of persons liable for military service in a local college.

In this way, they were able to dodge conscription as students of higher education.

In Khmelnytskyi region, the SSU Military Counterintelligence apprehended the head of unit of a district Territorial Recruitment Center for forging medical reports for his ‘clients’.

In Donetsk region, another head of a district military enlistment office was exposed. He ‘de-registered’ evaders from the military register on the basis of fake Military Medical Commission certificates.

In Sumy region, two founders of a charity foundation and their accomplices were detained for forging documents. These were used by the draft evaders to flee abroad posing as volunteers.

In Odesa region, the ex-deputy head of the state sea port and a current employee of the institution were apprehended for selling fake disability certificates to persons liable for military service. The organizers of the scheme used their accomplices, doctors from a local MSEC, to obtain the fake papers.

In Cherkasy, a repeat offender was exposed: he posed as a military serviceman and offered hospitalization to evaders with ‘serious’ diagnoses. Then, based on fictitious medical documents, the men were written off the military register.

The persons involved in the described unlawful activities have been notified of suspicion (in accordance with the crimes committed) under the Articles of the CCU:

• 114-1.1 (obstruction of lawful activities of the AFU and other military formations);
• 368.3 (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an unlawful benefit by an official);
• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine, committed by an organized group);
• 366.1 (forgery in office);
• 368-3.4 (bribery of an official of a legal entity of private law, regardless of the organizational and legal form, committed repeatedly or upon prior conspiracy, by a group);
• 369-2.2, 369-2.3 (abuse of influence).

The suspects face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out by the SSU Offices in Khmelnytskyi, Donetsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Cherkasy regions jointly with the National Police under the supervision of the regional prosecutor’s offices.