The SSU has dismantled another 8 channels of Ukrainian men of call-up age departing abroad.

10 individuals were exposed on organizing the unlawful activity.

They offered persons liable for military service to evade mobilization using counterfeit documents or by crossing the border illegally.

The cost of such ‘services’ reached USD 7,000.

In Poltava region:

a tax officer from Kremenchuk was detained for selling counterfeit medical certificates of fitness for military service.

The officer involved several officials of the military registration and enlistment office and the military medical commission in the scheme.

Their ‘clients’ planned to use the fake certificates to leave Ukraine.

In Kharkiv region:

A local resident was declared suspect for helping draft evaders to go abroad under the guise of ‘business trips’ of defence enterprises employees.

In Odesa region:

The SSU shut down two channels of illegal migration. One of them was set up by a local businessman who offered people to get to the EU states under the ‘cover’ of international carriers.

Another channel was organized by a local woman, who put fictitious marks in her ‘clients’ passports about them being in the consular register in Moldova.

The draft evaders wanted to use these fake markings to cross to the neighbouring country.

In Ivano-Frankivsk region:

The SSU detained an official of the military enlistment office. Together with an accomplice, they offered men to leave Ukraine posing as truck drivers.

During the searches, the law enforcement found a grenade and 200 rounds for small arms. The seized items have been sent for examination.

In Zakarpattia region:

An inspector of the State Border Guard Service was detained for facilitating smuggling of potential conscripts abroad through the so-called ‘green border’.

In Ternopil:

The law enforcement agencies documented criminal activity of an entrepreneur. He registered draft evaders as truck drivers and entered the data into the Shliakh system.

In Ternopil, the SSU also detained a businessman who sold fictitious deferrals from conscription for health reasons.

Investigations are currently underway into all the exposed facts under two Articles of the CCU:

• 332 (illegal transportation of persons across Ukraine’s state border);
• 368 (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an unlawful benefit by an official).

The SSU exposed the offenders jointly with the SBI, the State Border Guard Service and the National Police under the supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.