The SSU has blocked another 4 mobilization evasion schemes in Odesa, Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

The organizers offered men of call-up age to evade conscription and leave Ukraine using counterfeit documents or bypassing checkpoints.

The price for such ‘services’ ranged from USD 3,000 to 12,500, depending on urgency of departure and method of fleeing abroad.

Due to the SSU’s prompt response, over a hundred potential conscripts were prevented from departing to the EU.

For example, in Odesa:

a local businessman was taken into custody for offering married men to evade mobilization by obtaining fake disability certificates for their wives.

Then, they could cross the border as accompanying persons for their loved ones.

To unmarried ‘clients’, the dealer offered to ‘register’ a sham marriage with women with disabilities.

In Zakarpattia:

A resident of Berehove district was detained for smuggling draft evaders to the neighbouring country across the border river. The cost of ‘services’ included life jackets.

About 5 persons could use this illegal migration channel per week.

In Ivano-Frankivsk region:

Two suspects were apprehended: one of them - an official of the local military registration and enlistment office who, together with an accomplice, helped draft evaders go abroad as international drivers.

To do this, they involved a businessman working in international transportation and entered false information into the Shliakh system.

Apart from this, the law enforcement exposed two psychiatrists. For money, they ‘made’ fake severe diagnoses related to mental health disorders for their ‘clients’.

The investigations are ongoing to bring the involved to justice.

The operational and investigative activities were carried out jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.