The SSU has shut down another three schemes of mobilization evasion and illegal departure of potential conscripts abroad. Four organizers were detained in several regions of Ukraine.

For money, they helped evaders go abroad using counterfeit documents or ‘bypassing’ checkpoints. The ‘services’ cost up to USD 15,000.

In Odesa region:

The law enforcement agencies dismantled a criminal group that set up a channel for illegal migration to the self-proclaimed Transnistria.

According to the investigation, the members of the group looked for draft dodgers and offered them to be smuggled out of Ukraine via the border river.

To covertly cross it, they used a motorboat and launched only at night.

In Lviv region:

Following the SSU’s investigation, a 33-year-old Kyiv resident who, together with an accomplice, tried to illegally transport six people liable for military service to the EU is to be tried in court.

The perpetrators illegally registered their ‘clients’ in the Shliakh system as volunteers of a charity organization transporting humanitarian aid.

The SSU uncovered the criminal intentions in time and dismantled the group.

In Cherkasy region:

The SSU exposed another criminal group that smuggled evaders abroad as ‘international passenger transport drivers’.

The organizers arranged for potential recruits to drive on foreign trips of one of the carrier companies.

The operations were carried out jointly with the National Police and the State Border Guard Service under the procedural supervision of the prosecutor’s offices.