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⚖️ Mohyliv-Podilskyi District Court of Vinnytsia region found a woman with a disability guilty of organizing illegal border crossings.
A resident of the village set up a scheme to illegally transport men subject to military conscription across the border.
Being a Person with Group I disability and someone who supposedly requires external care (uses a cane), she entered into a sham marriage with a man and then traveled abroad with him under the pretext of treatment. She valued the services of the fake wife at 15 thousand dollars.
How many men passed through this scheme is not known exactly. The verdict mentions two cases, neither of which ended successfully.
In January of 2025 the woman entered into a sham marriage with a man. She met him through a neighbor and at his mother’s request, so he would not be drafted into the Armed Forces in exchange for financial assistance. The married couple could not leave the country because the man had enforcement proceedings for unpaid alimony. However, the sham marriage still allowed the man to obtain a deferral from mobilization for military service. For this he paid the fake wife 15 thousand hryvnias per month.
Apparently unsatisfied with the outcome of the scheme, the woman, according to the indictment, continued looking for a new husband. In May of 2025 the defendant accidentally met a man who had gotten lost in her village and was asking for directions. The defendant allegedly immediately told him that she takes people of conscription age out of the country. This was even said in the presence of other people who were visiting her at the time. The scheme is as follows: the man signs the marriage with her and, accompanying her as an injured wife, crosses the border for a fee of 15 thousand dollars. The woman allegedly offered this to the new acquaintance, but he had a criminal record and could not leave the country; however, he asked to transport his cousin. The man filed a police report and then acted under law enforcement control. He paid the woman the costs for the divorce in court from her previous husband and took her to a lawyer.
NRSD materials recorded communications of the case figures. The defendant argued with her then-husband by phone about the divorce petition she filed because he was not paying her. 24 October 2025 the woman and the man registered their marriage. After that the man subject to conscription went to the Territorial Recruitment Center and obtained a deferral from mobilization. That same day the couple went to the border, where they were detained.
In court the woman did not admit guilt and said that she did not look for the men herself and that she had been provoked.
However, the court rejected the arguments about provocation. As seen from the case materials, the defendant came to the attention of law enforcement before the figure in this case filed a criminal complaint. She attracted police attention after the first failed case, when the client did not leave the country because of the alimony debt.
Recordings of conversations indicate that the woman actively and voluntarily explained to the man how the border crossing works and where to take her to arrange the documents. She said that the Polish border authorities already knew about her because she had already smuggled another man that way, and she explained how to behave and what to say at the border to avoid exposing their sham marriage.
The court took into account that the defendant supports two children and has unsatisfactory health. In the end the woman was sentenced to 7,5 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. Since October of 2025 the defendant has been in custody.
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