Bank employee, TCR employee, bloggers and repeat offender: 8 new "draft evasion schemes" exposed and 14 organizers detained – SSU. PHOTOS
The Security Service and the National Police have uncovered a further eight schemes to evade mobilisation and have arrested the organisers of these schemes in various regions of Ukraine.
This was reported by the SSU, Censor.NET reports.
What is known
According to the report, for sums ranging from $7,000 to $15,000, the dealers offered men liable for military service a way to avoid conscription through forged documents or helped them flee abroad outside official border crossing points.
Kyiv
In Kyiv, SSU cyber specialists exposed the deputy head of the service maintenance department of one of the capital’s banks, who, in exchange for bribes, secured mobilization exemptions for draft evaders at a critically important enterprise. The offender was detained in a shopping mall while caught red-handed during the transfer of money from a client.
Odesa
In Odesa, SSU military counterintelligence exposed an employee of the administrative department of a TCR and SS, who groundlessly removed draft evaders from military registration on health grounds.
For money, he also helped mobilized servicemen avoid punishment for going AWOL. To do this, he allegedly promised to influence acquaintances among senior officials in Ukraine’s Armed Forces and members of a military medical commission.
Mykolaiv Oblast
Two suspects were also detained in Mykolaiv Oblast, one of them a foreign national with a permanent residence permit in Ukraine. They were selling foreign passports and driving licences into which they pasted photos of draft evaders.
Cherkasy Oblast
In Cherkasy Oblast, the organizer of a "draft evasion scheme", who already has a conviction for murder, was detained. The repeat offender arranged fictitious employment for men liable for military service at critically important enterprises, followed by their departure abroad under the guise of business trips.
Poltava Oblast
In Poltava Oblast, four bloggers were served with notices of suspicion for publishing the locations of checkpoints and patrol routes in the region in messenger chats
In addition, law enforcement officers documented how one of the suspects attacked officers at a local TCR and SS and forcibly removed from the restricted-access facility an acquaintance who had been mobilized.
Sumy Oblast
In Sumy Oblast, three administrators of Telegram channels and a Viber group were exposed for publishing the coordinates of mobile groups of TCR and SS to help people avoid being served personal summonses.
Vinnytsia
In Vinnytsia, an employee of a local hospital was exposed for urging men liable for military service on her TikTok page to "bypass" law enforcement patrols to avoid mobilization.
Bukovyna
In Bukovyna, an official of a district TCR and SS was detained for helping mobilized servicemen obtain fictitious disability status through connections among doctors.
Notices of suspicion
The suspects have now been served with notices of suspicion in line with the crimes committed under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 114-1(obstruction of the lawful activities of Ukraine’s Armed Forces and other military formations during a special period, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy);
Part 2 of Article 114-2 (unauthorized dissemination of information about the movement or location of Ukraine’s Armed Forces or other military formations established under Ukrainian law, committed under martial law);
Part 3 of Article 332 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine);
Parts 2 and 3 of Article 369-2 (abuse of influence).
The offenders face up to nine years in prison with confiscation of property.
