In Kyiv and Kropyvnytskyi, the SSU blocked two channels that enabled citizens of call-up age to leave Ukraine illegally.

For this purpose, criminals were forging documents for their clients, including for those supposedly studying in the EU member-states.

Using the schemes, organizers planned to make millions of ‘profits’.

In Kyiv, the SSU detained a local resident, who established a channel for illegally transporting conscripts to other countries under the guise of studying in European higher educational institutions.

The fraudster offered to ‘buy’ from him false invitations, student cards, and confirming certificates.

According to the investigation, the organizer was making the counterfeits himself.

He set up a clandestine workshop with the necessary printing equipment in his own apartment.

He offered ready-made ‘products’ through specialized Internet platforms, charging EUR 1,500 for a set of counterfeits.

The SSU detained the offender when he tried to sell a package of ‘documents’.

The SSU apprehended another organizer of illegal transportation of conscript age men across the border in Kropyvnytskyi. The offender was selling fake identity cards of IDPs who supposedly needed medical rehabilitation abroad.

His ‘services’ cost USD 3,500 per person.

During the searches of the detainee’s home, the SSU found:

• computer equipment and a mobile phone with evidence of unlawful activity;
• official forms of medical institutions and military commissariats of the temporarily occupied Kherson;
• counterfeits ready for sale.

SSU investigators will notify detainees of suspicion of crime under Article 332.3 of the CCU (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine). The court is to decide on the type of detention.

The pre-trial investigations are underway.

The SSU Cyber Security Department and the SSU Office in Kirovohrad region are investigating these cases under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.