{"id":588829,"date":"2026-05-19T13:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/2026\/05\/588829\/a-cancer-patient-s-tumor-used-to-help-a-draft-dodger-doctor-exposed-in-cynical-mobilization-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:29:49","slug":"a-cancer-patient-s-tumor-used-to-help-a-draft-dodger-doctor-exposed-in-cynical-mobilization-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/korabelov.info\/en\/2026\/05\/588829\/a-cancer-patient-s-tumor-used-to-help-a-draft-dodger-doctor-exposed-in-cynical-mobilization-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"A cancer patient's tumor used to help a draft dodger: doctor exposed in cynical mobilization scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Zakarpattia<\/strong>, law enforcement officers exposed a urologist at a district hospital who, according to investigators, was selling fake medical diagnoses to men subject to military service to obtain deferments from mobilization. This was reported on 19 May 2026<\/strong> by the Zakarpattia Regional Prosecutor’s Office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to law enforcement, the doctor offered men a way to avoid conscription allegedly for health reasons. To make the fabricated diagnosis look more plausible, the urologist gave one of the men a real stone that had previously been removed from the urinary tract of another patient \u2014 a woman with severe oncological pathology.<\/p>\n

During diagnostics, this biomaterial was to be presented as his own to confirm the fake illness. In fact, it was an attempt to create a medical basis for preparing documents that could grant the right to a mobilization deferment. The case documents two instances<\/strong> of money being handed over directly in the doctor’s office. Initially the doctor received 100 dollars<\/strong> as an advance for preparing the documents. Later, according to the investigation, he was given another 300 dollars<\/strong> \u2014 for the cancer patient’s stone and the finalization of the medical record.<\/p>\n

Officially the prosecutor’s office does not name the suspect’s surname or the medical institution where he works. At the same time, according to ZAXID.NET<\/strong> sources in law enforcement, it concerns urologist Mykhailo Yershov of the Berehove Hospital named after Linner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The medic is charged with bribery combined with extortion under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine<\/strong>. The article’s sanction provides for from five to 10 years<\/strong> of imprisonment, a ban on holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities for up to three years<\/strong>, as well as the confiscation of property.<\/p>\n

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