The new law's provision for depriving drivers of their driving licenses for draft evaders remains a theoretical prospect. In practice, this mechanism hardly works due to numerous administrative difficulties and a lack of resources in the CCC.
Lawyer Taras Borovsky explained that the implementation of the law involves a multi-stage procedure:
- The evader receives a summons. If he does not accept it, he is fined.
- If the fine is not paid, the summons is sent again, and then the person is put on the wanted list.
- The precinct officer records the absence of a person at the address and transfers this act to the territorial recruitment center (TCK).
- The CCC has a month to file an administrative lawsuit for deprivation of rights.
“This is a lengthy procedure that requires significant resources. In each case, the lawsuit must be prepared individually, which takes about three hours of work for a lawyer. And there can be thousands of such cases,” Borovsky emphasizes.
According to Borovsky, CCC lawyers often do not have time to work on such lawsuits due to workload or even corruption.
“The CCC lawyers are very often busy with other matters — for example, counting bribes,” he adds.
In addition, even if the case goes to court, the person has the right to provide their testimony, which could result in the lawsuit being dismissed.
At the time of Borovsky's statement, no cases of driver's licenses being revoked for tax evaders had been recorded.
The new law creates more bureaucratic difficulties than real results. Experts note that without significant refinement of the mechanism and an increase in resources in the CCC, this measure will remain only a declarative norm.
Deprivation of driving licenses is a powerful tool of influence, but it is currently almost never used due to the difficulties of implementation.
