The Security Service, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the National Police have blocked another seven schemes for evading mobilization and detained the organisers.

For as much as USD 5,000 to 21,000, they offered men the opportunity to evade conscription through forged documents or helped them flee abroad outside of checkpoints.

In Kyiv, the SSU exposed the chief physician of a private clinic and the head of the neurology department of a municipal medical institution. Together with three accomplices, they sold fictitious medical certificates of ‘poor health’ to draft dodgers.

Two organisers were also detained in the capital. For money, they promised conscripts fictitious employment at a critical infrastructure enterprise in order to obtain ‘reservation’ from military service.

After being ‘hired’, the men were to be sent abroad under the cover of a work trip.

A family doctor was also detained in the capital. He unjustifiably referred draft evaders to ‘inpatient treatment’ with the subsequent receipt of forged conclusions that the evaders supposedly had II or III group of disability.

In Borodianka district, Kyiv region, the law enforcement detained a 28-year-old businessman who organised the smuggling of conscripts to the EU, evading checkpoints.

In Kirovohrad region, the SSU and the SBI apprehended another suspect. He turned out to be an operative on duty at the local Territorial Recruitment Centre who organised a scheme to unjustifiably write off potential conscripts from military registration on health grounds.

In Zakarpattia region, the SSU detained the head of the district Territorial Recruitment Centre, who illegally removed conscripts who had fled abroad from the wanted list.

The investigation established that the military officer personally entered false data into the electronic register.

In Ivano-Frankivsk, the SSU Military Counterintelligence exposed a contract serviceman and a mobilised soldier who were transporting draft dodgers to the border and showing them how to cross it evading the checkpoint.

The organisers of the scheme wore military uniforms and transported their ‘clients’ in a service vehicle, hoping to slip through the checkpoints.

The detained individuals have been notified of suspicion under several Articles of the CCU, according to the offences committed:

• 114-1.1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during a special period);
• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine);
• 362.3 (unauthorized actions with information processed in electronic computers, automated systems, computer networks, or stored on such information carriers, committed by a person who has access to it);
• 368.3 (acceptance of a proposal, promise, or receipt of unlawful benefits by an official);
• 369-2.3 (abuse of influence).

The suspects face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision the Prosecutors’ Offices.