SBU dismantles schemes for evaders in three universities: teachers are involved in case
23 November 2024 00:27
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The Security Service and the National Police have dismantled three new schemes to evade mobilization of men of conscription age. The detainees include a professor and an associate professor of higher education. This was reported by the SBU press service, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
In exchange for bribes, the defendants helped conscripts obtain deferments from the draft on the basis of forged documents about their education or “poor” health.
For example, a professor at a private university in Poltava region was exposed for facilitating the enrollment of potential conscripts in bachelor’s, master’s and postgraduate programs at a local state university without entrance exams.
In addition, in exchange for money, the defendant offered the evaders fictitious “treatment” in a psychiatric clinic to further write them off the military register for health reasons.
To implement both “options”, the offender used personal connections among educational officials and doctors.
In Zakarpattia region , an associate professor of the history department of a local university was detained when she took a bribe for illegally enrolling “applicants” of military age.
The suspect personally “accompanied” her clients during the formal entrance exams. The official then brought the “students'” certificates to the local TCC, where they were granted deferments.
In Kharkiv region, a local entrepreneur and two of his accomplices were suspected of postponing mobilization for persons liable for military service using a similar “scheme”.
To do this, the criminals “arranged” for the evaders to go to a local college, where they did not actually study, and provided fictitious certificates of education to the Military Commissariat.
The offenders have been served a notice of suspicion. The offenders face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
