SSU and National Police dismantle another four mobilization evasion schemes
The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have uncovered new schemes of mobilization evasion.
As a result of operations in several regions of Ukraine, 7 organizers of the schemes were detained.
They sold fake medical certificates or ‘routes’ to escape abroad evading checkpoints.
The cost of such ‘services’ ranged from USD 2,000 to USD 15,000 per an evader.
One of the perpetrators is a neurologist, a member of a Military Medical Commission, who was detained in Kyiv for taking a bribe. The official took money for issuing fake diagnoses restricting participation in combat operations on the front line.
The SSU Military Counterintelligence jointly with the police also detained two Kyiv residents who sold geolocations of ‘bypass’ routes on the Ukraine-EU border to draft evaders.
In Kropyvnytskyi, three members of a criminal group selling fake medical certificates of military medical commissions for deregistration were apprehended.
In Vinnytsia, a 34-year-old director of a confectionery company was detained for trying to falsely include the company in the list of critical enterprises in order to ensure reservations from the draft to the staff.
To do that, the official artificially overstated the number of contracts concluded and the firm’s overall profits.
During searches of the suspects’ offices and homes, the SSU found documents, mobile phones and computers with evidence of the crimes.
The detainees were notified of suspicion of committing offences under three Articles of the CCU (according to the actions each of them committed):
- 114-1.1 (obstructing the AFU’s lawful activities);
- 368.3 (obtaining an unlawful benefit by an official);
- 332.3 (illegal transfer of persons across the state border, committed by a group, upon prior conspiracy).
The suspects face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The operations were conducted by the SSU Offices in Kyiv and Kyiv region, Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad regions jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of regional prosecutors.
