In the Lviv region, a gang was arrested that profited from draft dodgers

In the Lviv region, a gang duped draft dodgers twice – first by selling fake documents for traveling abroad, and then by demanding bribes from their “clients” under the guise of military commissars.

This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine.

According to the investigation, the illegal enrichment scheme involved two civilians, a police officer, a serviceman, and a judge’s son. They promised two men to include them in the “Shlyakh” system for traveling abroad for $15,000. They took the money and issued fake documents.

Knowing that the men would carry large sums of cash abroad, the perpetrators dressed up as employees of the territorial recruitment center and stopped them on the way. After staging a document check, they claimed that the draft dodgers’ certificates were fake and demanded a bribe of $20,000 from them, threatening to send them to the front.

After receiving the money, the suspects were apprehended by law enforcement. They are currently in custody.

Earlier in Kyiv, the arrest of scammers who extorted money from men under the guise of military conscription officers and the State Bureau of Investigations was confirmed.

It is also worth recalling that earlier in Odessa, two criminals posing as SBU officers engaged in extortion for “exemption from mobilization.”