Criminals face up to two years of imprisonment for forgery and use of known forged documents.
As the law enforcement officers established, a 20-year-old and a 45-year-old resident of the Kharkiv region, as well as a 49-year-old resident of the city of Dnipro, falsified the identity card of a conscript, entering into them unreliable information about declaring them unfit for military service with exclusion from military registration.
Later, the men presented forged documents at the Sheghini checkpoint in order to cross the border without hindrance.
Investigators of police department No. 1 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 knowingly 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.
In total, during the period of the legal regime of martial law, police investigators of the Lviv region opened 1,240 criminal proceedings on the facts of forgery and the use of forged documents to cross the state border of Ukraine in order to evade mobilization and military service. 803 persons were notified of the suspicion. In 444 criminal proceedings, pre-trial investigations have been completed, indictments have been referred to the court.
Communications Department of the Lviv Oblast Police