Scheme for draft deferments exposed in Lviv region
A former employee of the Lviv Region State Tax Service organized a scheme to evade mobilization by involving an employee of one of the district TCP. This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation and the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office.
The intermediary sought clients and directed them to a former tax collector. The former tax collector assured that he had influence over military officials at one of the district TCPs and SS and could resolve the issue of quickly producing fictitious military registration documents, issuing a deferral, or even removing the person from the wanted list.
The men were then sent to a leading specialist at the TCP, who promised to influence the decisions of the TCP commission. She was responsible for transferring documents and organizing their approval. As a result, the defendants were provided with an illegal deferment and actual avoidance of mobilization.
The Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office clarified that the 48-year-old accomplice of the ex-tax collector works at the Shevchenkivskyi DTCP and the Lviv Joint Venture.
For their “services,” the scheme participants charged from $1,000 to $1,500 from each “client.” Two episodes of receiving bribes have now been documented. According to operational data, during 2024 alone, the scheme participants illegally issued documents for at least seven men of draft age. The total amount of funds received could reach about $20,000.
Three participants in the scheme were informed of suspicion of receiving a bribe for influencing a decision-making by a person authorized to perform state functions, committed by a group of persons and combined with extortion (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 3 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The sanction of the article provides for a penalty of imprisonment for a term of up to 8 years, with confiscation of property. The court chose preventive measures in the form of detention with the possibility of posting bail for all suspects.
Earlier, the SSU, together with the police, detained Valentyna Fedevich, an occupational pathologist and head of the expert team for determining the disability group (formerly MSEK) of the state non-profit enterprise "Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University", for taking a bribe. She demanded $2,000 from a conscript who previously worked at a state-owned coal industry enterprise.
In addition, in Odessa, a 65-year-old doctor at a private clinic was reported on suspicion of extortion and receiving illegal benefits. According to the investigation, the doctor offered a 26-year-old man “assistance” in completing documents that would allow him to receive a deferral from conscription into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.