The first to be mobilized are not convicted people, but those with a criminal record, said Justice Minister Malyuska. In particular, corrupt officials.
"It is more interesting to start not so much with convicts as with those who have a criminal record. These are people who have already been released from prison or have never even been there. According to the law, they cannot be mobilized," Malyuska said.
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 corrupt people can be sent to war with complete peace of mind,” 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 in Ukraine gave bribes.
Recall that the parliamentary committee recommends that the bill on strengthening mobilization allow convicts who received sentences without actually serving them in places of the penitentiary system (either sentenced with a suspended sentence, or conditionally convicted persons who are physically at large) to be mobilized.
As well as persons in prison, with the exception of persons convicted of crimes against the foundations of national security, against human sexual freedom, and some other most sensitive crimes.
