Removal from military registration for $7,000: Mykolaiv police officers exposed a scheme to evade mobilization

The head of one of the Kherson Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers and three of his accomplices developed a plan for illegal dismissal from service for men of conscription age by entering unreliable information into military registration documents.

This is reported by the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Mykolaiv Region.

It is noted that the 48-year-old head of one of the district territorial centers of recruitment and social support in the Kherson region organized an illegal scheme to remove men of draft age from military registration by entering unreliable information into military registration documents.

Also, the man involved two more employees of regional territorial procurement centers and an employee of the Center for the provision of administrative services in the Kherson region.

According to law enforcement officers, an employee of the Administrative Services Center was looking for men of draft age and offered to remove them from the military register for $7,000, deeming them unfit for military service during martial law.

«When the clients brought the necessary documents and the specified amount of money, the woman handed them along with part of the money to the organizer and another contractor, who prepared the relevant documents with seals and stamps. After that, they handed over to the fourth person involved, who, on the basis of unreliable documents, entered information into the register about exclusion from military registration,» the report says.

Investigators detained the explorer and three of his accomplices after receiving a bribe in accordance with Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.

In addition, investigators seized almost 121,000 dollars, 1,600 euros and more than 50,000 hryvnias from the residences and workplaces of members of the group. Also documentation, mobile phones, motor vehicles and weapons: 460 cartridges of various calibers, a pistol, a machine gun and magazines for it, nine grenade cases and incendiaries in the amount of five pieces.

The law enforcement officers notified the detainees of the suspicion of accepting an offer, promise or receiving an illegal benefit by an official, with a prior conspiracy by a group of persons, which is provided for in part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Currently, the court chose preventive measures in the form of detention with the right to deposit 980 thousand hryvnias, 1.2 million hryvnias and another 2.5 million hryvnias each for the organizer and his assistant.

The suspects face up to 10 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or engage in certain activities for a period of up to three years with confiscation of property.

We will remind you that the law enforcement officers suspect the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Center of Medical and Social Examination and her son, an official of the Pension Fund, of illegal enrichment.