New schemes for tax evaders: SBU detains MSEC officials (photo)
11 November 21:43
Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and police officers have dismantled new mobilization evasion schemes operating in different regions of Ukraine. Officials of the MSEC and doctors of the VLC were detained, Komersant ukrainskyi reports, citing the SBU’s official Telegram channel.
The detainees include officials of medical and social expert commissions and hospitals. In exchange for bribes ranging from $2,000 to $10,000, they helped conscripts avoid conscription on the basis of fictitious medical reports.
For example, in Kropyvnytskyi, a surgeon, a member of the Military Qualification Commission, was detained red-handed when he received a bribe for unreasonably declaring a conscript unfit for service.
In Dnipropetrovs’k region, the head of a local hospital department was exposed for taking bribes for diagnosing serious illnesses in close relatives of conscripts. This allowed the evaders to escape mobilization abroad.
In Kharkiv region, another MSEC official, a participant in a large-scale draft evasion scheme exposed by the Security Service in October, was suspected. While working as a rehabilitation doctor, she falsified her clients’ medical records to obtain disability.
If proven guilty, the offenders face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.
