Legal aid lawyer in Ternopil suspected in draft evasion scheme
In Ternopil, law enforcement officers detained a lawyer from a legal aid center. The woman is suspected of promising to influence a conscript to have him removed from the wanted list in the registration system for 2,560 euros.
This was reported on the website of the Ternopil Regional Prosecutor's Office.
According to the investigation, in early March 2026, a lawyer from the legal aid center decided to enrich herself illegally. The woman learned that her friend was wanted and assured her husband that she could influence the officials of the territorial recruitment and social support center to remove him from the register. She estimated her services at 2,560 euros. She also persuaded the husband to agree to the specified conditions, noting that he had no other way to avoid mobilization.
As Serhiy Zyubanenko, head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Ternopil region, noted on his Facebook page, the lawyer was detained while receiving 2,560 euros.
At the request of the investigators, the court chose a preventive measure for the suspect - detention with the possibility of paying bail in the amount of 166,400 hryvnias. Police investigators declared her a suspect under Part 3 of Art. 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to eight years of imprisonment with confiscation of property
We will remind you that the HACC has once again assigned duties to former prosecutor Maksymenko.
We also reported that the Appeal will consider the confiscation of the assets of the former head of the TCP.
