Foreign passports for draft evaders for $6,000
Payment was collected in two tranches, and the "foreigner" status allowed clients to bypass military registration checks during mobilization
In the Mykolaiv region a document forgery scheme was uncovered: a resident of Odesa, together with a citizen of Moldova, for 6000 dollars produced fake Romanian or Bulgarian passports and other identity documents for Ukrainian persons liable for military service, and the organizers were detained after handing over the finished set.
The Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office reported the exposure and arrests, noting that the forgeries were produced in Moldova using details from genuine documents, which created the illusion of their legality. Details were published on the institution’s official channel on Telegram.
Clients were offered passports of Romanian or Bulgarian citizens, as well as international passports and driver’s licenses that visually matched the originals and were included in a “package” of services by agreement.
According to the investigation, granting a fake status as foreign nationals allowed those liable for military service to avoid checks of military registration documents during mobilization measures by using third-country documents.
Law enforcement officers documented the transfer of funds in two parts totaling 6000 dollars, after which the suspects were detained immediately when the forged documents were handed over to the client.
It was additionally reported that in the Mykolaiv region law enforcement detained a 31-year-old doctor suspected of extorting money from a wounded serviceman for passing the military medical commission.
Earlier we wrote:
- A cancer patient’s stone for a draft dodger: doctor exposed in a cynical mobilization scheme
- In the Mykolaiv region a VLK doctor demanded money from a wounded serviceman for being “written off”
- “Limited fitness” for 6000 dollars: head of the VLK detained in Zakarpattia
- In the ring — sport, in life — a scheme: a boxing official “organized” trips for “draft dodgers”
- In Mykolaiv military TCK officials were detained on bribery charges: for 2400 dollars they promised to “remove from the wanted list”
