In Kharkiv region, 13 officials who organized a scheme to evade mobilization were detained (photo).

The Security Service of Ukraine uncovered a corruption scheme to evade mobilization in Kharkiv

A criminal group of 13 people in Kharkiv provided services for 'writing off' draft dodgers from military registration for money, reported the Security Service of Ukraine and the Office of the Prosecutor General.

“The Security Service dismantled another corruption scheme of evasion from mobilization in Kharkiv region. The head of one of the interregional medical and social expert commissions of the regional center was involved in the organization of the deal. For money, he helped dodgers avoid conscription based on fake disability certificates,” stated the report.

According to law enforcement officials, the official and his accomplices were part of the criminal group. Among them were subordinates, heads of regional medical institutions, and civilian intermediaries. They fabricated fake documents about the presence of diseases that serve as grounds for obtaining disability.

“They falsified all medical documentation on the history of the 'disease' of their client, including data about their stay in inpatient treatment. Then the organizer of the deal prepared a fake decision of the medical and social expert commission on the assignment of a disability group,” said the SSU.

According to the SSU, the cost of services ranged from $2 to 5 thousand. The amount depended on the urgency of the 'order'.

According to law enforcement officials, more than 400 individuals of conscription age illegally avoided mobilization due to the actions of the group members.

“During comprehensive measures, SSU employees detained the organizer and his accomplices. Simultaneously, more than 90 searches were conducted at the workplaces and residences of the group members and in their vehicles. During the searches, more than $500 thousand, almost €80 thousand, over 1 million hryvnias, as well as Russian rubles, presumably obtained through criminal means, were found,” the report states.

The detainees are in custody and may face up to 8 years of imprisonment under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Part 2 of Art. 28, Part 1 of Art. 114-1 (obstruction of lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons); Part 3, Part 4 of Art. 358 (forgery of documents, use of forged documents, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons).

Earlier, the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Medical and Social Expertise Center (MSEC) Tetyana Krupa and her son, the head of the Regional Pension Fund Oleksandr Krupa, were also exposed.