SBU exposes schemes for evaders: detainees include mobilised MP and founder of charity fund
9 April 2024 01:40
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has uncovered mobilisation evasion schemes in four regions of Ukraine, including the founder of a charity fund in Cherkasy region, who provided “positions” to people liable for military service so that they could escape abroad under the guise of volunteers. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
“The Security Service and the National Police have blocked 4 more schemes to evade mobilisation and illegally travel abroad by men of military age. All organisers of the schemes were detained in different regions of Ukraine,”
– the statement said.
Theowner of a local charity fund was detained in Cherkasy region. He helped men cross the state border for money under the guise of volunteers by “trading positions” in the organisation.
In Odesa region, the SBU detained the head of a military medical commission who provided fake documents on medical unfitness for service for money.
“An intermediary helped to find clients. He was a trauma surgeon from a local hospital who was detained by the SBU earlier this year,”
– the statement said.
In Ternopil region , a channel for illegal migration organised by a local village council member was dismantled. The Security Service says that at the beginning of the full-scale war, he was mobilised to a military unit of the Defence Forces. During his service, the defendant began to forge letters of justification for the unimpeded import of humanitarian goods, allegedly for the needs of the Armed Forces.
On the basis of such documents, the evaders were entered into the Shlyakh system. Then they were allowed to leave Ukraine without hindrance.
The SBU notes that the cost of “services” offered by a village council deputy in Ternopil region and the head of a district military medical commission in Odesa region was up to $12,000.
A group that smuggled potential recruits to a neighbouring country by swimming across the Tisa River or along forest trails, bypassing checkpoints, was dismantled inPrykarpattia . The group operated in Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions.
“To do this, the offenders prepared the relevant “routes” in advance and instructed the fugitives about their actions during the illegal crossing of the state border,”
– the SBU said.
The report concludes that investigations into all the revealed facts are ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice.
