Since the beginning of 2026, law enforcement officers have exposed dozens of facts of abuse in territorial recruitment and social support centers, as well as in military medical commissions and expert teams for assessing the daily functioning of a person. This is reported by Kommersant Ukrainsky with reference to the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police, the PromPolitInform portal reports.
These are schemes to avoid military conscription. The cost of bribes reached $ 25,000.
“The police are documenting both individual facts of abuse and the activities of organized groups, which include officials of the TCC and the SP, members of the Military Medical Commission, employees of medical institutions and intermediaries,” the department noted.
Over the five months of this year, law enforcement officers have opened 44 criminal proceedings against employees of territorial recruitment centers. 65 people have already been suspected.
“In the course of documenting criminal schemes in the activities of military medical commissions (MMCs) and expert teams for assessing the daily functioning of a person (EKOPFO), 65 criminal proceedings have been registered, of which 36 are against the MMCs, another 29 concern representatives of the EKOPOFO (MSEK). As part of the investigations, the police have reported 123 people to the police on suspicion,” the department specified.
In particular, the activities of seven organized criminal groups have been documented, which were engaged in the illegal execution of documents on unfitness for military service, the establishment of fictitious groups, and the entry of false information into medical documents and state electronic systems.
40 indictments have now been sent to court against 51 individuals, and 23 verdicts have already been rendered as a result of the consideration of criminal proceedings.
Among the latest documented schemes are the organization of illegal “reservations” and travel abroad for military conscripts led by a criminal authority in Odessa, the exposure of a group of doctors in the Kirovohrad region who issued fictitious disabilities, as well as the detention in the Cherkasy region of a serviceman who promised to influence the decision of the Military Commissariat of Internal Affairs to dismiss him from service due to health reasons for $12,000.
Law enforcement officers are also systematically analyzing the decisions of the Military Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the Military Commissariat of Internal Affairs adopted throughout the period of martial law (2023-2026). In total, almost 80,000 decisions that could have been used to illegally avoid mobilization have already been sent for review. More than 10,000 of them have already been canceled, including 1,478 in 2026.
