At least 100 men left: Kiev exposed a large-scale scheme to evade mobilisation

This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation.

The organiser of the illegal activity was the retired head of the Kiev regional military commissariat, who retained the necessary connections. Under his control, accomplices entered knowingly inaccurate data into military registration documents on the removal of men from the registration due to unfit for military service for health reasons.

The package of documents included forged VLK certificates, which were issued without the men having undergone the established procedure. The members of the group provided "clients" with advice and instructions on the places, procedure and method of crossing the state border of Ukraine. Most of the documents were executed through one of the district TCC and SP of Kyiv region, - reported in the GBR.

Representatives of at least 7 more Kyiv district military commissions and one in Transcarpathia were also involved in the mobilisation evasion scheme.

The attackers, according to the GBI, helped evaders in different regions of Ukraine.

According to the organiser's plan, one part of the criminal group was responsible for finding clients and the other for illegal execution of documents. For the sake of secrecy, they did not cross paths with each other.

The investigation suggests that at least 100 evaders could have used this scheme to travel abroad.

40 episodes of receiving money were fully documented. The cost of the "service" ranged from 6 to 10 thousand US dollars per person, depending on the starting package of documents. Clients were both yesterday's students and bankers with adult sons, - noted in the GBR.

Law enforcers conducted more than 40 searches at the places of residence of the suspects and work in TCC, during which they seized documentation and data carriers, confirming the implementation of the illegal scheme. At the moment, the exact number of evaders who paid for the "services" of the attackers is being established.

The organiser and six people from his "inner circle" were reported on suspicion under:

• different parts of Art. 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - creation of a criminal organisation, management of such an organisation and its structural part, committed by an official using his official position;
• art. 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - elimination of obstacles to the transfer of persons across the state border by entering false information in military registration documents and the use of knowingly false official document - VLC certificate.

It is noted that law enforcers will check the truthfulness of deregistration of men of conscription age. If violations are detected, the issue of restoring the constituent data of evaders in the Electronic Register of Persons liable for military service will be resolved.