The SSU has shut down another 7 mobilization evasion schemes in different regions of Ukraine.

During the operations, the SSU detained the organizers of the schemes ‘red-handed’, including officials of military registration and enlistment offices and a member of a military medical commission.

For money, they ‘helped’ persons liable for military service to evade conscription and leave Ukraine using counterfeit documents or bypassing checkpoints.

The cost of such ‘services’ ranged from USD 500 to USD 8,500.

Due to the SSU’s prompt responses, over a hundred potential recruits were prevented from illegally travelling to the EU states.

In Kyiv:

two citizens of a South Caucasus state were detained for selling counterfeit documents on parenthood or volunteering.

The evaders used the fake documents to travel outside Ukraine.

The offenders also smuggled their ‘clients’ abroad through prepared forest trails in Zakarpattia region.

In Lviv region:

The SSU Military Counterintelligence detained an official of the recruitment and staffing department of the district military commissariat who extorted USD 17,000 from two employees of a local enterprise.

For this amount of money, the suspect promised to ‘issue’ documents on their ‘unfitness’ for military service.

In Ivano-Frankivsk region:

The law enforcement detained the head of a district military registration and enlistment office. For the bribes, he ‘wrote off’ local men from the military register for health reasons.

In Cherkasy region:

the secretary of the district military medical commission was served with a notice of suspicion for ‘selling’ fake certificates with ‘serious’ diagnoses. He involved his colleague, the commission’s doctor, in the crime.

In this way, they ‘exempted’ over 20 men from mobilization every week, who then tried to flee abroad.

In Kirovohrad region:

An official of a district military enlistment office was detained for forging medical reports and selling them to persons liable for military service in collusion with members of the military medical commission.

The investigations are ongoing.

In Odesa region, following the SSU’s investigation, a businessman was sentenced to 5 years in prison for an attempt to smuggle a group of draft evaders abroad outside checkpoints.

The operational and investigative activities were carried out jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.