The SSU has blocked new schemes of evading mobilization and illegal departure of conscription-aged men abroad.

Organizers of schemes selling counterfeit documents to persons liable for military service have been detained.

The cost of the fakes reached USD 16,000.

In Mykolaiv region:

A criminal group selling fake certificates of unfitness for service for health reasons was dismantled.

The suspects include the head of a local charity fund, who was looking for draft evaders, and her accomplice, a hospital official. The latter fabricated medical reports about ‘severe illnesses’ of the ‘clients’.

The fakes were then passed to the deputy chief doctor of the regional centre for medical and social examination, who ‘confirmed the diagnoses’ and assigned disability groups.

Over 15 individuals planned to use this way to travel to the EU, but SSU prevented this.

In Poltava region:

The law enforcement uncovered a local lawyer who offered draft evaders two options. The first was to provide them with fabricated conclusions of the Military Medical Commission, the second - to enter them into the Shliakh information system for travelling abroad as ‘drivers of international trips’.

In Khmelnytskyi region:

Another illegal migration scheme was dismantled. It involved a psychiatrist at a military hospital and a representative of the Military Medical Commission, who sold fake certificates of ‘unfitness for service’.

The counterfeit documents were submitted to the military registration and enlistment office to ‘write off’ potential recruits from the military register.

In Prykarpattia region:

A businessman was detained for helping men evade mobilization.

To do this, he sold them fake disability certificates, which he received through connections in one of Kyiv’s Medical and Social Examination Centres.

In Lviv:

Another draft evasion channel, operating under the cover of freight transportation, was shut down. The law enforcement detained the perpetrator who registered his ‘clients’ as drivers working for a charity fund.

The investigations are ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crimes and bring the involved to justice.

The operations were conducted jointly with the National Police under the supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office and regional prosecutor’s offices.