The Security Service of Ukraine detained four more military officials who helped evade conscription and escape abroad. Detentions took place in Kiev, Odessa and the Kharkiv region.
As reported by the press center of the SBU, we are talking about officials of the TCK (territorial recruitment and social support centers, former military registration and enlistment offices) and heads of military medical commissions.
They offered those liable for military service to avoid mobilization for money on the basis of fake documents about unfitness for service for health reasons.
Own “services” officials estimated up to $10,000 per person.
– The amount depended on the timing “of resolving the issue” and financial capabilities of “clients”, – specified in the SBU.
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In the capital, the SBU detained the head of the district military registration and enlistment office and the head of one of the capital's military medical commissions.
According to the investigation, they were selling fake medical certificates with “severe diagnoses”. Dodgers used them to avoid mobilization and exit from Ukraine.
• Kharkiv region
The special service exposed the head of the district military registration and enlistment office. According to investigators, he “earned” more than 11 million hryvnia on recruits.
The military official involved three employees of the local hospital in the scheme.
In exchange for bribes, they diagnosed “health problems” from potential recruits, and those were removed from military records.
• Odessa
As noted by the SBU, the secretary of the local military medical commission organized the corruption scheme in the city .
-Together with a Moscow lawyer and two accomplices, they set up a large-scale sale of falsified documents about unfitness for military service, the message says.
Participants of the scheme were looking for “clients” ; throughout the territory of Ukraine. They were registered with the Odessa TCC, in order to subsequently “write off” from military service.
VLK secretary and her accomplices were detained “on hot”. They are under suspicion. The issue of preventive measures is being resolved.
Investigations are ongoing on all the facts. Officials face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
