The SBU and the National Police have uncovered eight schemes to evade mobilization in various regions
The Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with the National Police, has dismantled eight new schemes for evading mobilization and detained their organizers in various regions of the country.
According to the investigation, the operators offered conscripts the chance to avoid conscription for sums ranging from $2,000 to $17,500—through forged documents or illegal travel abroad.
In the Kyiv region, officials from a state urban planning institute were exposed for issuing “reservations” through fictitious employment. According to the documents, the draft dodgers received salaries but did not actually work. Also in the region, a former Kyiv City State Administration official was detained for arranging for men to be employed at municipal enterprises in exchange for money to avoid mobilization.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, law enforcement exposed medical professionals who sold fictitious diagnoses and processed disability claims. To do this, patients were hospitalized and even underwent unnecessary surgeries.
In the Poltava region, a surgeon helped conscripts obtain disability status and be removed from the draft registry, and a scheme was in place to sell certificates of unfitness for service.
In Lviv Oblast, a military official promised to arrange a “reservation” through a medical facility, while another suspect offered to arrange guardianship over relatives to avoid conscription.
In the Cherkasy region, the organizer of an illegal operation to smuggle men across the border was detained. He instructed clients on routes and remotely guided them during the crossing.
The suspects have been notified of charges under several articles of the Criminal Code, including illegal smuggling of persons across the border, evasion of mobilization, and corruption offenses.
They face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
Additionally, the court ordered the seizure of over 48 million hryvnias from an official at the environmental inspection agency.
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