Sept. 27, 2025, 10:04 a.m.
(PHOTO: DBR)
Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained a resident of Odesa region who organized fake marriages for military personnel for money so that they could resign from service and go abroad.
According to the SBI press service, a resident of Odesa region with a group II disability repeatedly married military personnel.
They used the status of a disabled person's husband to leave the service and go abroad. The woman would then return to Ukraine and file for divorce. A Border Guard inspector decided to take advantage of the successful case and become the fraudster's third husband. After the marriage, he arranged for care for his wife and resigned from the service. The newlyweds were detained by SBI officers at a checkpoint while trying to travel abroad.
According to intelligence, this fictitious marriage cost the servicemen 10 thousand US dollars. The couple was served a notice of suspicion of evasion and aiding and abetting evasion from military service. The issue of choosing a measure of restraint is being decided. The sanction of the article provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
This is not the first attempt to use marriage or children to travel abroad. In December 2024, prosecutors of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office sent to court an indictment against two residents of the Odesa region on the fact of organizing the illegal transportation of persons across the state border using forged documents. The offenders developed a scheme to create false birth certificates for non-existent children in order to provide fictitious paternity to a man who already had one child.
In October, the organizer of the illegal transfer of men across the state border of Ukraine through fictitious marriages of conscripts with women with disabilities was detained in Odesa. The offender found a client among Odesa residents who was liable for military service and offered him to enter into a fictitious marriage with a woman with a disability.
Кирило Бойко