“They “earned” more than $1 million from draft dodgers”: two TCC managers were detained in the Kiev region

The defendants offered their assistance to those liable for military service in order to avoid conscription on the basis of forged documents.

The SBU detained two leaders of the TCC in the Kiev region and their accomplice, who “earned” more than $1 million from draft dodgers. This was reported by the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The Office of the Prosecutor General noted that the head of the Boryspil TCC, as well as the head of the TCC of the Buchansky district, were detained.

The Security Service informs that with the assistance of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense and the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, another scheme for evading mobilization was eliminated.

“As a result of complex measures in the Kiev region, three organizers of the deal were detained. They turned out to be the leaders of two district TCCs of the capital region and their accomplice - a citizen of the country of the South Caucasus. During searches, more than $1.2 million was found in the premises and cars of the detainees. The defendants kept most of the seized cash in specially equipped hiding places under the floors and behind the cladding of the walls of their own houses,” the report says.

As the investigation established, the defendants offered their assistance to those liable for military service in order to avoid conscription on the basis of forged documents stating that they were unfit for service for health reasons. According to the case materials, the cost of such “services” was $37 thousand per evader.

“This amount included the preparation of a full “package” of documents, in particular fictitious medical certificates, as well as “accompaniment” of draft dodgers during the passage of a military medical commission. To implement the scheme, military registration and enlistment office officials used personal connections among representatives of the Military Military Commission, who were “secretly” involved in the criminal scheme. Then, fictitious documents were used to remove potential conscripts from military registration, which gave them the opportunity to escape abroad,” the SBU said in a statement.

The perpetrators are in custody. They face up to 8 years in prison.

Comprehensive measures are ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Let us remind you that today, August 16, information and photos of the probable detention of the head of the Boryspil district TCC and SP Sergei Rusin by law enforcement officers began to appear in Telegram channels. The press service of the Boryspil RTCC in a commentary for Glavkom noted: the photographs do not refer to officials of the Boryspil RTCC and joint venture. At the same time, the press service refused to answer whether the military registration and enlistment office was detained.