The Security Service and National Police have blocked four new schemes for evading mobilization in several regions of Ukraine. Nine organizers have been detained, including a court official.

The cost of such ‘services’ ranged from USD 6,000 to 12,000.

In Kyiv, a 40-year-old local resident was detained for obtaining a fake medical certificate for his wife, stating that she had a serious illness. Based on it, the officials from one of Kyiv’s district state administrations issued a document stating that the man was ‘permanently caring for his sick wife’.

Currently, not only the organizer of the scheme is under suspicion, but also his ‘client’, a 28-year-old Kyiv resident who ordered the fake medical certificate.

The investigation also established that the organizer was looking for single mothers and offering to ‘register’ their children in the families of draft dodgers in order to show that the men have many children.

Both cases are being investigated for possible involvement of officials from the district state administration and the civil registry office.

In Zakarpattia, a judge’s assistant was detained for helping potential conscripts obtain deferrals from mobilization by posing as single parents.

To do this, the official drew up fake divorce papers and court decisions on the upbringing of children by their fathers, liable for military service.

In Khmelnytskyi region, the SSU Military Counterintelligence detained five perpetrators. They turned out to be local dealers who sold to draft dodgers fake medical certificates of incapacity for work for their close relatives. The documents were to be used to leave the country with them to provide care.

The organizers involved the secretary of the chief doctor at a city medical institution, who signed the forged documents for her colleagues.

In Lviv region, the law enforcement detained two more suspects.

One of them is a 27-year-old resident of Rava-Ruska, who sold fake medical certificates to draft evaders about ‘serious illnesses of their wives requiring treatment abroad’. The perpetrator used personal connections at a local oncology medical facility to obtain the documents.

Another organizer helped conscripts leave the country under the cover of transborder truck drivers.

The detained individuals have been notified of suspicion under several Articles of the CCU:

• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine, committed by an organized group);
• 114-1.1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the AFU);
• 369-2.3 (abuse of influence).

The suspects are in custody and face up to 9 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision of prosecutor’s offices.