The SSU has shut down another 5 schemes of mobilization evasion and illegal departure of conscription-aged men abroad.

Over 10 organizers have been apprehended, including officials of Territorial Recruitment Centers and military medical commissions.

For money, they helped draft evaders hide from conscription by using counterfeit documents and fleeing abroad.

The cost of ‘services’ reached USD 12,000.

In Dnipropetrovsk region:

The SSU Internal Security unit neutralized a criminal group that sold fake certificates of unfitness for service.

According to the investigation, the scheme was set up by the head of a district Territorial Recruitment Center in Kryvyi Rih.

He involved two of his subordinates and ten other accomplices in the crime. These included local hospital officials and intermediaries to find ‘clients’ and hand the bribes to the organizer.

During the searches, the SSU found unregistered weapons and over UAH 3.5 mln in cash.

In Poltava region:

The head of a district military medical commission and three of his subordinates have been notified of suspicion.

They ‘issued’ document with bogus diagnoses for the draft evaders who did not even undergo medical examinations, but only bought the ‘documents’ from these officials.

In Cherkasy:

The head of a unit of one of city council municipal enterprises has been exposed for selling ‘places’ to the evaders in the drug addicts register of the regional drug clinic.

The official involved the department head – a narcologist of the medical institution – in the unlawful activity.

In such a way, they promised to hide their ‘clients’ from mobilization.

In Odesa region:

The law enforcement agencies uncovered dealers who issued false paternity documents to enable the draft evaders to cross the border.

In Khmelnytskyi:

Two perpetrators were detained ‘red-handed’ when selling fake medical certificates confirming the second group of disability.

The investigations are ongoing.

The operations were conducted jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the regional prosecutor’s offices, Poltava Specialized Defence Prosecutor’s Office of the Central Region and Cherkasy District Prosecutor’s Office.