A scheme to evade mobilization has been exposed in the Kyiv region and three organizers of the deal have been detained. They turned out to be the heads of two district TCCs in the capital region and their accomplice, a citizen of a South Caucasus country, who earned more than $1 million in this way.
The SBU press center reported this today, August 16.
According to the investigation:
- the defendants offered their assistance to those liable for military service in order to avoid conscription on the basis of forged documents about their unfitness for service due to health reasons;
- the cost of such services amounted to 37 thousand US dollars per person;
- This amount included the preparation of a full package of documents, in particular fictitious medical certificates, as well as support during the military medical commission;
- To implement the scheme, military commissariat officials used personal connections among representatives of the VLK, who were “blindly” drawn into the criminal scheme;
- Subsequently, the fictitious documents were used to remove potential conscripts from military registration, which gave them the opportunity to go abroad.
To find “clients” and transfer money, TCC officials brought in a foreign acquaintance. The middleman was detained by the military counterintelligence of the SBU in a capital restaurant when he was receiving 50 thousand US dollars from new “clients”. After that, both TCC officials were detained in their offices.
During the searches:
- More than $1.2 million was found in the premises and cars of the detainees. The defendants kept most of the confiscated cash in specially constructed hiding places under the floors and behind the wall paneling of their own homes;
- Additionally, during searches of the foreigner’s home, a large quantity of weapons was discovered, including a pistol with a silencer, the origin of which is currently being determined.
Security Service investigators announced that the detainees were suspected under two articles of the Criminal Code:
- Part 1 of Article 114-1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations);
- Part 3 of Article 369 (unlawful benefit provided to an official holding a responsible position, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons).
The perpetrators face up to eight years in prison.
Comprehensive measures are ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
The publication “Kievshchyna 24/7” reports that we are talking about the heads of the TCC of the Bucha and Boryspil districts.
Source: SBU, “Kievshchyna 24/7”
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