The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have shut down another five mobilization evasion schemes.

As a result of operations in different regions of Ukraine, ten organizers, who offered their services for USD 5,000 to 13,000, have been detained.

In Kyiv region, a group of lawyers who sold fake medical certificates of children’s disability to draft evaders has been uncovered.

The perpetrators also falsely registered their ‘clients’ as pilots and aircraft engineers. This allowed the men to travel outside of Ukraine, supposedly to ‘confirm their professional suitability for international flights’.

Now, four fraudsters have been served suspicion notices.

In Kharkiv region, the SSU Military Counterintelligence detained a midwife who offered men to evade mobilization for money by providing them with a status of a father of many children.

To obtain the documents, she offered pregnant women to ‘earn extra money’ and indicate the data of her ‘clients’ in the child’s birth certificate instead of the real dad’s.

In Lviv region, the SSU cyber units exposed a local businessman and a neurologist who were selling fake disability certificates.

To draw up medical histories, they used seriously ill patients with real diagnoses unwittingly; the latter underwent medical examinations instead of the draft evaders.

In Zakarpattia, another two perpetrators have been notified of suspicion. They offered conscripts ‘migration’ to the EU across the border river. The ‘services’ included instructions on how to cross the river and a wetsuit.

In Vinnytsia, the law enforcement apprehended a suspect who tried to smuggle draft dodgers out of Ukraine through the so-called ‘green border’. First, the man accompanied his ‘clients’ to the border in his car and then led them to the neighbouring country via ‘forest trails’.

The detained individuals have been served notices of suspicion under several Articles of the CCU, according to the actions each of them committed:

• 28.3, 114-1.1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the AFU, committed by an organized group);
• 15.2, 332.3 (completed attempted smuggling of persons across the state border of Ukraine, committed by an organized group);
• 28.3, 358.3 (forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps, committed by an organized group).

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

The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Offices.

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