March 18, 2025, 3:22 p.m.

Odesa Law Enforcement Officer Arrested for $15K Military Deregistration Scheme

(Photo: DBR)

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation detained a law enforcement officer from Odesa region who promised to write off men from military registration in exchange for money.

According to the SBI press service, using his powers, he was looking for men who were wanted and hiding from the territorial centers of recruitment and social support.

For 15 thousand US dollars, he offered them, allegedly through his acquaintances, to obtain a disability of the appropriate group, which allowed them to be deregistered from the military register. On March 13, SBI detectives detained a law enforcement officer while he was receiving a USD 15,000 payment for a service from a person wanted by the TCC.

The law enforcement officer was served a notice of suspicion of receiving an unlawful benefit combined with extortion (Article 369-2 (3) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The detainee was chosen as a measure of restraint in the form of detention with the possibility of bail in the amount of UAH 3 million. He was also removed from office.

The day before, the State Bureau of Investigation together with the Security Service of Ukraine also served the law enforcement officer with a notice of suspicion that he had promised the men to remove them from the list of persons liable for military service in exchange for money.

The accomplices offered the men to resolve their issue with the MCC for USD 3.5 thousand through as yet unidentified officials who could log into a special system and cancel the wanted list. In case of refusal, the law enforcement officer threatened to help the TCC find the wanted person and bring him or her to criminal responsibility.

Earlier, the State Bureau of Investigation reported exposing an organized group of doctors who helped healthy men of military age obtain medical documents that allowed the medical and social expert commission to declare them unfit for service.

Before that, the head of the Odesa consultative polyclinic department of one of the institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was accused of corruption and was served with a notice of suspicion.

A doctor of a medical institution was also detained in Odesa. She is suspected of taking bribes to confirm her disability.

Кирило Бойко

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