Odesa Official Arrested for $12K Scheme to Illegally Demobilize Soldiers

In Odesa region, an official of a terrorist defense unit set up a scheme to illegally demobilize soldiers for money. He was detained.

According to the State Bureau of Investigation, in February of this year, he offered one of the soldiers "help" with his discharge from service. The official promised to influence the decision of the military medical commission on demobilization for health reasons in exchange for 12 thousand US dollars.

On March 5, 2025, he was detained while receiving the first part of the money in the amount of $6 thousand.

Currently, law enforcement officers are identifying the full range of people involved in the scheme, as well as military personnel who could have benefited from it.

The detainee was served a notice of suspicion of receiving an unlawful benefit for promising to influence a decision by a person authorized to perform state functions, combined with extortion (Part 3 Art. 3692 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 8 years.

Previously, Intent wrote about how a family doctor in Odesa set up a scheme to sell medical certificates that allowed him to avoid mobilization. It was a doctor from the Primary Health Care Center No. 3 of the Odesa City Council.

Also in Odesa, a criminal group of four people was convicted, who, under the guise of police officers and military commissariats, intimidated victims with forced mobilization and then extorted bribes from them.

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

Ірина Глухова