Zaporizhzhia lawyer family involved in draft evasion schemes – SBU
The State Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the National Police have dismantled a large-scale mobilization evasion scheme in Zaporizhia: a "family contract" of lawyers sold fictitious medical certificates about the alleged disability of relatives to military conscripts in order to obtain a deferral from the draft.
On Monday, the SBU reported in its Telegram channel that the deal was organized by a local lawyer together with her husband, brother and his wife, who also practiced law.
"During the search, UAH 4.7 million equivalent was found on the defendants and their accomplices. Among the cash found was 641 thousand Russian rubles," the report said.
According to the Ukrainian special services, the perpetrators worked in the same office, and to implement the scheme, they involved familiar doctors who, for money, unjustifiably assigned disability groups to relatives of the evaders.
"Then the finished forgery was submitted to local government bodies. There, personal connections were "connected" with the help of which the dealers received fictitious conclusions about the need to supervise fake persons with disabilities," the department notes.
The SBU specifies that after receiving all the "signatures", the defendants sold the entire package of fake documents to the evaders for $5,500 per client.
Law enforcement officers documented the scheme and detained the organizer-lawyer.
She has currently been notified of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an unlawful benefit for oneself or a third person for influencing the decision-making of a person authorized to perform state or local government functions, combined with the extortion of such a benefit).
Investigative actions are underway to declare suspicions against all participants in the transaction.
The comprehensive measures were carried out under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office.
