The maximum penalty provided for forgery and use of a knowingly forged document is up to two years of imprisonment.
As the law enforcement officers established, the perpetrators, a 40-year-old resident of Poltava region, a 37-year-old resident of the city of Odesa and a 42-year-old resident of Kyiv, independently forged the identity card of a conscript, entering into them unreliable information about being declared unfit for military service with exclusion from military registration.
Later, the men presented forged documents at the Krakivets checkpoint in order to cross the border without hindrance.
Investigators of the Yavoriv District Police Department, under the procedural guidance of the Yavoriv District Prosecutor’s Office, informed all three perpetrators of the suspicion of criminal misdemeanors, provided for in Part 1 and Part 4 of Article 358 (Forgery and use of a known forged document) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The maximum punishment provided by the sanctions of the articles is restriction of freedom for a period of up to two years.
Pre-trial investigations have been completed, indictments have been sent to the court for consideration.
We would like to remind you that the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 64/2022 dated 24.02.2022 introduced martial law in the country and started the mobilization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the establishment of restrictions on the departure of male citizens aged 18 to 60 outside of Ukraine.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police