Feb. 27, 2025, 8:57 p.m.

Odesa Police Officer Indicted for Smuggling Military-Aged Men Abroad for $6,500

(Photo: Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office)

An indictment against the former head of the water police sector of one of Odesa's district police departments has been sent to court. He is accused of setting up an illegal scheme to smuggle men of military age abroad (Part 3 of Article 332 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

This was reported by the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office.

According to the investigation, the law enforcement officer and his accomplices were looking for people willing to leave the country and organized their crossing outside the official checkpoint for USD 6,500. The smuggling was carried out on foot across the border in the Rozdilnyansky district.

Photo: Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office

After receiving the money, the men were given detailed instructions and sent to a hotel, from where they were transported to the border by organized transport.

A police officer was detained while trying to smuggle four conscripts abroad. He has already been dismissed from law enforcement.

The investigation into other participants in the scheme is ongoing.

Prosecutors recently sent to court an indictment against the organizer and four members of the organized group on the fact of illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine committed by an organized group for mercenary reasons.

Also, the Prymorskyi District Court of Odesa granted the SBU's motion and seized a phone that was seized from a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate from the village of Mayaki, who is accused of helping men illegally cross the border.

Earlier, in Odesa region, police exposed a serviceman of the TCC and JV who was organizing the illegal transportation of men across the state border of Ukraine.

Ірина Глухова

You might also like:

March 13, 2025

Odesa Police Officer Among 2 Detained for Organizing Illegal Smuggling of Men Across Border

March 10, 2025

Driver Caught Smuggling Military-Aged Men Across Ukraine-Moldova Border

March 12, 2025

SBU Detains Odesa Man for Facilitating Illegal Travel for Up to $15K

March 18, 2025

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

March 10, 2025

SBI Detains Odesa Serviceman for $16K Scam to Avoid Military Service

March 3, 2025

SBI Detains Odesa Law Enforcement Official for Smuggling Military Age Men to Moldova

March 17, 2025

SBU Detains 21-Year-Old Russian Agent Planning Air Strikes on Odesa

March 13, 2025

Odesa Official Detained for $3,000 Bribe in Land Permit Scheme

March 6, 2025

Odesa Criminal Group Posed as Police to Extort ₴79K from Victims

March 17, 2025

High Anti-Corruption Court Rejects Disqualification Motions in Odesa Smuggling Case

March 18, 2025

Woman Charged With High Treason for Spying on Ukrainians in Kherson

March 17, 2025

Odesa Director Faces House Arrest for ₴800K Embezzlement Scheme

March 14, 2025

Ukrainian Police Identify Russian Servicemen Behind Looting in Bilozerka

March 13, 2025

60-Year-Old Woman Loses ₴495K to Fraudsters Posing as Activists in Voznesensk

Ukrainian Soldier Faces Life Imprisonment for Defecting to russia's Army