Minister of Justice Malyuska said that it is not convicts who can be mobilized, but those who have a criminal record. In particular, corrupt officials.
"It is more interesting to start not so much with the convicted, but with those who have a criminal record. These are the people who have already been released from prison or have never been there. According to the law, they cannot be mobilized," said Malyuska.
As for convicts, Malyuska suggested that it is possible to mobilize those convicted of serious crimes: "it depends on what is considered a serious crime." In particular, corrupt officials.
"It seems to me that the corrupt can be sent to fight with absolute peace," the minister said.
He believes that they are often patriots, "it's just that their patriotism is quite peculiar and they are greedy." And he added that most people gave bribes in Ukraine.
We would like to remind you that the parliamentary committee recommends that the draft law on strengthening mobilization would allow convicts who received sentences without actually serving them in places of the penitentiary system (or sentenced with a suspension from serving their sentence, or conditionally sentenced, who are physically at liberty), to be able to be mobilized.
And also persons who are in prisons, with the exception of persons convicted of crimes against the foundations of national security, against human sexual freedom and some other most sensitive crimes.
