Nurse from Odesa detained on suspicion of blackmailing conscripts

Police detained a nurse in Odesa on suspicion of helping men avoid mobilization, and it was found that sometimes the service was intrusive.

According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Odesa Oblast, it was established that the woman resorted to blackmail and intimidation, threatening to mobilize regardless of her actual health status or other legal grounds for deferral.

Law enforcement officers detained the former nurse immediately after she received $6,000 from a client. Police said that the 42-year-old woman helped men of mobilization age avoid military service in exchange for money. As it turned out, she had until recently worked as a nurse and told her clients about allegedly reliable connections in medical institutions and military enlistment offices.

Thus, in one case, the offender promised to influence employees of one of the district territorial centers for recruitment and social support in order to change the decision on the existing diagnosis to a more serious one, and on the basis of a new medical report - to remove from military registration.

Otherwise, she guaranteed that she would agree with the members of the military medical commission to remove him from the military register for health reasons. To do this, she offered to issue false medical reports.

Odesa police investigators have already notified the defendant of suspicion under Part 3 of Article 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - abuse of influence. The sanction of the article provides for up to eight years in prison.

Earlier, the Prymorskyi District Court of Odesa found the conscript guilty of using a forged document, namely an SBU employee ID. The man was sentenced to two years in prison, but this sentence was commuted to probation for a year.

Кирило Бойко