National Police block nearly 500 mobilization evasion schemes involving fictitious medical grounds
In the course of Operation Guardian, the National Police of Ukraine blocked nearly half a thousand criminal schemes to evade service through fictitious medical grounds.
On April 25, employees of the Strategic Investigations Department and its regional branches, the Main Investigation Department of the National Police, regional and district police departments, and the Prosecutor General’s Office, together with the internal security of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, implemented the seventh stage of the large-scale nationwide Operation Guardian. Measures took place in most regions of the country. In total, during this stage alone, 115 searches were conducted at the residences of individuals involved in the schemes, and 87 suspicions were served, the National Police press service reported on Telegram.
As established by law enforcement, the primary scheme involves submitting forged or unreliable medical documents regarding the health status of either the individuals themselves or close relatives requiring constant care to military units and TCCs. Such actions created formal grounds for evading constitutional duty under martial law, allowing individuals to receive a deferment from conscription or prematurely terminate their service duties.
During inspections, it was established that the "sick" men or their relatives did not visit medical institutions, did not undergo treatment or examinations, or that help was indeed provided under the medical documentation number, but to entirely different people. All these actions received a clear legal assessment: from evasion of conscription to unauthorized abandonment of service, fraud, and forgery of documents.
