Back
Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
SBU, DBR and the National Police uncovered more 4 draft-dodging schemes in various regions of Ukraine
The Security Service, the State Bureau of Investigations and the National Police blocked 4 new schemes to evade mobilization and detained seven organizers of the operations in Kharkiv, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia regions.
For money, the criminals helped those liable for military service avoid conscription in various ways, including forged medical conclusions, fictitious employment and fake training. Some organizers smuggled their “clients” abroad bypassing checkpoints.
🔹 Thus, in Kharkiv the Security Service, together with the DBR, exposed an official of the headquarters of one of the National Guard battalions who for 8 thousand US dollars fraudulently placed those liable for service at a construction enterprise designated as a critical infrastructure facility.
After “employment,” clients hoped to leave the country unimpeded under the pretext of business trips.
Also in the Kharkiv region, SBU officers detained a psychiatrist — the former head of the local branch of the disbanded MSEC — who sold draft-dodgers certificates of “unfitness” for service based on fake mental illnesses.
In addition, the offender “advised” clients on how to simulate mental disorders and intellectual disability during medical examinations.
To carry out the scheme, the suspect used connections at the district Territorial Recruitment Center and also involved acquaintances who were members of the expert team for assessing a person’s daily functioning (former MSEC).
🔹 In Kirovohrad region, the SBU and National Police detained the head of a department at a local university who, for bribes, enrolled draft-dodgers in fake postgraduate programs, subsequently obtaining deferrals from service.
The cost of such a “service” was 5 thousand US dollars.
🔹 In Vinnytsia region, Security Service officers in coordination with the National Police uncovered another 4 organizers of a channel for illegally smuggling draft-dodgers out of Ukraine bypassing checkpoints.
For 12 thousand US dollars the criminals escorted those liable for service in their own vehicles to the state border, then showed routes for illegally crossing it by swimming across a river.
SBU officers detained the suspects “red-handed” while receiving a new bribe payment from a client.
All detainees have now been notified of suspicion in accordance with the crimes committed under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
▪️ part 3 article 332 (illegal transfer of persons across the state border of Ukraine);
▪️ part 3 article 369-2 (abuse of influence combined with extortion of an unlawful benefit);
▪️ part 3 article 368 (receipt of an unlawful benefit by an official holding a responsible position).
The offenders face up to 10 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The comprehensive measures were carried out by SBU officers in Kharkiv, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia regions together with the DBR and the National Police under the procedural guidance of the Dergachi and Kropyvnytskyi district prosecutors’ offices, the Vinnytsia regional prosecutor’s office and the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Defense in the Eastern Region.
