In Ukraine, the Security Service and the National Police revealed three new schemes for evasion of mobilization and illegal departure abroad of men of draft age. The operation covered Kyiv region, Lviv and Odesa, where 13 organizers and participants of these events were detained.
For bribes of 1,500 to 12,000 US dollars, the perpetrators helped the evaders to avoid the draft by drawing up fake medical certificates of disability. For example, in the Kyiv region, the head of the department of neurology and neurosurgery of one of the hospitals and his accomplice, a traumatologist, were arrested for falsifying medical histories of conscripts. These fakes were sent to medical and social examination centers (MSEK), where fake diagnoses were "confirmed" and disability groups were assigned.
In Lviv, the former chairman and three officials of the inter-district MSEK, who were engaged in issuing medical certificates of unfitness for service on the basis of false medical documents, were suspected.
Two heads of medical departments and the secretary of the local MSEK were detained in Odesa, who were selling fake disability certificates for money.
Four unemployed people, who were looking for customers among conscripts, were involved in the illegal activity. Currently, all those involved in the case have been notified of suspicion under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Perpetrators face up to nine years in prison with confiscation of property.
