Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained three officials of the Goloseevsky RTTC and joint venture of the city of Kyiv and three civilians who organized a scheme for illegally evading mobilization by those liable for military service.

Source: press service of the State Bureau of Investigation, Office of the Prosecutor General, UP source in law enforcement agencies

Verbatim Bureau: “During the searches, they found more than $1.2 million in cash and a luxury vehicle fleet.”

Details: According to a source from Ukrainskaya Pravda, among the detainees are the head of the military registration and reservation department for sergeants and reserve soldiers, Mikhail Vedmid, and the former chairman of the All-Russian Military Commission Vladimir Prikhodko, who was already suspected of similar actions, was removed from office, but continued to influence the processes.

According to the investigation, employees of the RTCC, as well as the chairman of the military medical commission of the same region, created a criminal group that provided “services” to men who did not have the desire to do military service.

The group was organized by a civilian who looked for clients, collected the necessary documents and transferred them to the RTCC.

“Clients” were provided with a package of military registration documents for their removal and exclusion from military registration. The package price ranged from 2 to 15 thousand US dollars.

During the searches, documents and records were confiscated from the defendants, which may indicate the facts of illegal removal from military registration and evasion of mobilization of thousands of people liable for military service.

More than 1.2 million US dollars and 45 thousand euros in cash were also found and seized. In addition, 11 premium cars worth more than $100 thousand each were seized, law enforcement officers add.

The defendants were informed of suspicion of organizing, executing and complicit in the request and receipt of unlawful benefits by prior conspiracy by a group of persons associated with extortion. The court is asked to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention.

It is reported that at the same time, two more employees were found in the same military registration and enlistment office who entered false data into the Unified State Register of Conscripts, Persons liable for Military Service and Reservists, which allowed them to evade military service and go abroad.

They were also informed of suspicion of unauthorized interference in the operation of information and communication systems, and the issue of choosing a preventive measure in the form of detention is being decided.