Case of serial wife with disability for military sent to court in Odesa

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of the State Border Guard Service, have completed an investigation into a fake marriage scheme organized by a resident of Odesa region.

This was reported by the SBI press service.

According to investigators, a woman with a group II disability repeatedly entered into fictitious marriages with military personnel. Using the status of the husband of a person with a disability, they were dismissed from service and went abroad. After the honeymoon, the woman would return to Ukraine and file for divorce. Such fictitious marriages cost servicemen up to 10 thousand US dollars.

One of these clients was a border guard inspector who decided to take advantage of a successful case and become the scammer'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. The couple is currently accused of evading and aiding and abetting military service. The indictment has been sent to court.

The sanction of the article provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

This was 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