The Security Service and the National Police have dismantled six new schemes for evading mobilization that operated in several regions of Ukraine. Fourteen organizers who sold their ‘services’ for USD 1,500 to 13,000 have been uncovered.

In Kyiv, SSU cyber units exposed a former chief specialist of the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat and a deputy dean of a Kyiv university who, for money, arranged for draft dodgers to become university lecturers.

In Cherkasy region, a lecturer at a local university received a notice of suspicion for removing draft evaders from the search list of the Territorial Recruitment Center and helping them to be ‘written off’ from military registration on the basis of fictitious diagnoses.

To do this, she used her connections among doctors and military registration and enlistment office officials.

Also in this region, a 27-year-old administrator of a Telegram channel was exposed for publishing the geolocations of Territorial Recruitment Centers in Kaniv district.

In Khmelnytskyi region, the head of a psychiatric hospital department, a member of the expert team for assessing the daily functioning of individuals (formerly MSEC), has been detained.

For money, he organized pseudo-hospitalization for men to obtain ‘status’ as unfit for military service.

In Kropyvnytskyi, a criminal group was uncovered. Its members drove their ‘clients’ to one of the border regions of Ukraine and then, along forest paths, outside checkpoints, transported them to one of the EU states.

In Zhytomyr, three more suspects were detained. Through acquaintances, doctors and officials of the TRCs, they issued documents certifying ‘poor’ health to draft evaders, enabling them to cross the border.

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

• 27.5, 28.2, 114-1.1 (aiding and abetting in obstructing the lawful activities of the AFU, committed by an organized group);
• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border);
• 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 operational and investigative actions were carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Offices.