The State Bureau of Investigation reported that the head of the department of the Primorskyi District Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support was exposed in a multimillion-dollar scheme in Odesa.


According to the SBI, the scheme operated during July 2023. The official interfered with the Oberih database, “correcting” information about 138 conscripts. The cost of the service ranged from 4.5 to 7 thousand dollars, which allowed him to earn more than a million dollars.


According to the SBI, all those who took advantage of this scheme have been identified, and some of them have fled abroad. The detained evaders who remained in Ukraine were taken to the recruitment center to update their data and mobilize to the Armed Forces.


So far, 14 searches have been conducted at the places of work and residence of the defendant and the participants of the scheme.


The case is at the stage of procedural actions, and the organizer of the scheme faces a sentence of 15 years in prison.