The SBU has uncovered four schemes involving the sale of administrative positions and evasion of mobilization
The SBU, in collaboration with the State Bureau of Investigation and the National Police, has uncovered four new schemes involving evasion of military service and the sale of "logistical" positions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine.
In the Chernihiv region, a military unit commander was detained for transferring mobilized soldiers from combat units to a rear garrison in exchange for money. According to the investigation, he arranged such transfers for three soldiers and received nearly 2 million hryvnias for this.
In the Zhytomyr region, the commander of one of the Armed Forces brigades was exposed for placing acquaintances and relatives in his unit. Formally, they were serving, but in reality, they never showed up at the unit. According to the investigation, the commander took their pay cards and embezzled at least 370,000 UAH.
In the Khmelnytskyi region, a deputy commander of a training center was placed under suspicion; according to law enforcement, he promised to transfer mobilized personnel to rear units for $5,000 by leveraging recommendations and connections within the command.
In the Lviv region, a contract soldier from a border guard unit was detained who, for $16,000, offered conscripts “discharge” from the registry through a fictitious declaration of unfitness for service due to health conditions, with the involvement of officials from the Territorial Recruitment Center.
The suspects were notified of charges under several articles of the Criminal Code, including embezzlement, abuse of influence, abuse of official position, and evasion of military service. They face up to 10 years in prison.
In Kharkiv, a scheme to help men flee abroad through the TCC was uncovered.
The SBU detained the head of the Medical Examination Commission in Kropyvnytskyi for selling disability certificates.
Kyiv police dismantled an interregional cocaine distribution network worth 8 million hryvnias.
