In Kiev, they exposed an organized criminal group that helped the servicemen illegally travel abroad, formulating a fictitious paternity. For $ 3,000. The attackers offered to become "large parents", looking for poor women with children.
The investigation found that the members of the group found women with young children and offered them a cash reward for recognizing a stranger husband by their child's father. This gave men the right to cross the state border without interruption, as large parents have a delay from mobilization.
The attackers used links in one of the district courts of the Odessa region to ensure the necessary court decision to recognize fictitious paternity. In the future, this decision was used by men to avoid mobilization and departure from Ukraine.
For his services, the organizer of the scheme received from the military service of $ 3 thousand, of which the mother of children received only $ 500.
The Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office has sent an indictment against the participants of the criminal group. The accused will be judged under Part 2 of Art. 15, Part 3 of Art. 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (attempted crime, illegal transfer of persons across the state border of Ukraine, committed by an organized group). They are threatened with imprisonment for up to nine years with confiscation of property.