The SBU and the National Police dismantled six criminal schemes to evade mobilisation in Kyiv and four other regions of Ukraine. Nineteen organisers of the schemes were detained.
The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police eliminated 6 new mobilisation evasion schemes operating in Ukraine. As a result of complex measures, 19 organisers of the schemes were detained in different regions of our country.
According to the investigation, the suspects were selling fake medical certificates or transporting evaders abroad for money.
For example, in Odesa Region, law enforcement officers stopped 4 minibuses near the border in which local businessmen were trying to smuggle 47 fugitives to unrecognised Transnistria.
The car with the organisers of the scheme was accompanied by a ‘motorcade’ of conscripts. In total, the criminal group for smuggling fugitives consisted of 9 people, including two foreigners from the South Caucasus. All of them are currently in custody.
In Kharkiv Region, 4 more organisers of ‘tax evasion schemes’ were exposed. The detainees include a local lawyer and a repeat offender with a criminal record for premeditated murder. They involved more than 10 accomplices in their illegal activities. The criminals sold fake medical certificates of disability to evaders to remove them from the military register.
A former lawyer who helped fugitives to escape abroad under the guise of humanitarian cargo forwarders was detained red-handed in Kyiv. To implement the criminal mechanism, the suspect registered his clients with a local charity organisation.
In Poltava Region, an official of the Health Department of Poltava Regional State Administration was exposed. She was selling fake medical reports on magnetic resonance imaging examinations to obtain fake disability.
Another scheme in the region was organised by two entrepreneurs who sold fake certificates of employees of the State Emergency Service to evaders.
In Khmelnytskyy Region, the deputy head of the medical advisory commission and two local doctors were suspected of issuing medical certificates for disability to persons liable for military service without any grounds.
▪️ pp. 2, 3 Art. 28, Part 1 Art. 114-1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces and other military formations committed by a group of persons or an organised group);▪️, part 3, Article 332 (illegal trafficking of persons across the state border of Ukraine committed by an organised group);▪️ pp. 2, 3 Art. 28, pp. 2, 3 Art. 369-2 (abuse of influence committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons or an organised group).
The offenders face up to 9 years in prison with confiscation of property.