Case of Odesa woman who made men unfit for service sent to court

Investigators have sent to court the case of a 28-year-old Odesa woman accused of forging military registration documents and making men unfit for service.

According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Odesa Oblast, the woman used fake seals and forms of the territorial center for recruitment and social support in her transactions.

The police detained the woman when she was receiving the first tranche of $5,000 from a client. As a result of the searches, in addition to the money, investigators seized seals of various medical institutions and territorial divisions of the TCC and JV, medical forms and other material evidence from several apartments she rented.

In the course of the pre-trial investigation, law enforcement officers established that the offender entered into a criminal conspiracy with a currently unidentified person to forge official documents, the materials in respect of which have been separated into separate proceedings. From her accomplice, the woman received personal data of three more men of military age and made fake military registration documents for them, but did not have time to hand them over. The offender ordered the printing of fake forms from a printing house and certified them with stamps of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and territorial recruitment and social support centers, which she bought online. The process of making temporary certificates of persons liable for military service was completed by forging the signatures of officials of the TCC and the JV and gluing the clients' photos.

The court imposed on her a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention with the right to be released on bail, which she did not use. The offender refused to give any testimony regarding her unlawful actions.

The woman is charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• Article 332 (3) - organization of illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine, management of such actions or facilitation of their commission by advice or instructions, committed for mercenary motives
• part 3 of Article 358 - forgery of an official document that grants rights and releases from obligations, is issued and certified by an institution that has the right to issue and certify such documents, and which is drawn up in the form prescribed by law and contains the details required by law, with the aim of using it by another person, committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons.

The suspect faces up to nine years in prison for her actions.

Кирило Бойко