Up to $150 thousand earned monthly on tax evaders: Ternopil region eliminates corruption scheme in district shopping center
Kyiv • UNN
Law enforcers exposed a large-scale corruption scheme in the Ternopil Regional Military Commissariat. Officials earned up to $150,000 per month by evading military duty, taking bribes from $1,000 to $15,000 for various services.
In Ternopil region, law enforcement officers uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme through which officials of the RCCC and JV profited from persons evading military duty. The defendants were "earning" from $100,000 to $150,000 per month. This was stated by the National Police of Ukraine, UNN reports.
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Each service "provided by officials" had its own price. The amount ranged from a thousand to 15 thousand dollars. For updating military data with a corresponding barcode in the temporary certificate of a person liable for military service, as well as for the prospect of avoiding mobilization, they wanted up to $2000
According to him, from 5,000 to 15,000 thousand dollars was paid for influencing members of the Military Qualification Commission to be discharged from military service, as well as for assistance in transferring them from combat units to the rear with the prospect of dismissal from the army.
In the course of the pre-trial investigation, police officers found that the organizer of the illegal earnings was assisted by five accomplices.
Zyubanenko said that the defendants created artificial obstacles in obtaining documents for people who were legally entitled to a deferment, and also mobilized them to raise their performance. Later, such persons were dismissed from military service for money.
The Criminal Investigation Department has established that the defendants "helped" almost 150 people.
Police officers with the KORD special forces conducted 38 searches in Ternopil and Lviv regions, during which they found and seized about $100,000, €80,000, UAH 2 million, official documents, computer equipment and other items indicating the illegal activities of the officials
The organizer of the corruption scheme was served a notice of suspicion during a meeting with the heads of the TCC and JV on the organization and conduct of general mobilization of human and transport resources, which took place at the Ternopil Regional Military Administration.
He is charged with Part 3 of Article 368 (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an undue advantage in a large amount). The sanction of the article provides for a sentence of imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with confiscation of property.
One of the accomplices also faces three to eight years in prison with confiscation of property. The man was served a notice of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 369-2 (acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an unlawful benefit for oneself or a third party for influencing the decision-making of a person authorized to perform the functions of the state or local self-government, combined with extortion of such benefit) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In addition, decides to serve the organizer and five accomplices with suspicions under Part 2 of Art. 28, Part 3 of Art. 368, Part 3 of Art. 369-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as part of an organized criminal group.
Recall
The head of a military commissariat in Donetsk region was detained for demanding a 15,000 UAH bribe for issuing a deferral from mobilization. The detained lieutenant colonel faces up to 8 years in prison.
