In Ukraine, six mobilization evasion schemes were uncovered, leading to the arrest of 10 organizers.

The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have uncovered six new schemes for evading mobilization and illegal border crossing by men of conscription age.

This was reported by RBK-Ukraine citing the press service of the SBU.

As a result of a large-scale operation conducted across various regions of Ukraine, ten organizers were arrested for taking bribes ranging from $3,000 to $20,000 to assist individuals in avoiding conscription using fake documents.

In Chernihiv Oblast, a city council deputy was detained for helping conscripts evade mobilization in exchange for compensation by registering them as students at a local college. This allowed these men to gain deferral status as applicants for higher vocational education.

In Khmelnytskyi Oblast, the head of the regional territorial recruitment center (TCK) was exposed for producing fake medical certificates to remove men from military registration.

Other schemes operated in different areas of Ukraine. In Donetsk Oblast, the head of the local military enlistment office also aided in "removing" conscripts using counterfeit medical documents.

In Sumy Oblast, two founders of a charitable foundation created fake documents for those wishing to travel abroad as volunteers.

In Odesa Oblast, a former deputy head of a sea port and a current employee of the institution were selling disability certificates, involving local doctors in the scheme.

Additionally, in Cherkasy, a repeat offender was arrested for posing as a military officer, organizing "hospitalizations" of draft evaders with false diagnoses, which provided grounds for their removal from military registration.

The organizers of these schemes have been notified of suspicion under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: part 1 of article 114-1 (obstruction of the activities of the Armed Forces), part 3 of article 368 (receiving unlawful benefits), part 3 of article 332 (illegal transportation of individuals across the state border), part 1 of article 366 (official forgery), part 4 of article 368-3 (bribery of an official), and parts 2 and 3 of article 369-2 (abuse of influence).

For these crimes, the offenders face up to 10 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.

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Earlier, in Odesa, two men were detained who promised to "buy out" a conscript from service for $17,000.