Mobilization in the Armed Forces "saved" from prison thousands of accused - investigation (infographic)
According to May 7 in NGL. Media, this case is far from the only one. Journalists analyzed the data of the court register for 2022-2024. In total, about 11,000 cases were stopped due to the mobilization of the accused during this time. "Analysis of stopped cases shows that it is mainly about theft, drugs, heavy accidents. Many stopped cases relate to corruption crimes - appropriation or waste of property, bribery, abuse of office, etc. ," the material said.
Of the 400 voluntarily elected cases, 100 were about crimes committed by people already in the status of servicemen. Of the remaining 95% of cases, the consideration was stopped after the defendants' mobilization. Only 5% of the cases refused this. The Dejure Foundation Lawyer Marta Birch is sure that there are cases of abuse. One of the cases considered by the journalists is the accusation of the exputate of the Khmelnytsky Regional Council Mykola Khakva in fraud and inciting before bribery.
The man was sentenced to seven years in prison, but in May 2022, Kharkiv mobilized. One judge stated that the accused served as a commander of the military enlistment office. The former MP assured journalists that he "defended and defended the country in different combat directions", but did not provide details. Another convicted - Dmitry Dukhnovsky - drunk shot down a person and fled. Instead of prison, he mobilized, but later wanted because of the unauthorized abandonment of the military unit.
Now the man is judged again. The 48-year-old court worker Lyudmila Yatsenko had to judge a tendency to a bribe. However, at first, it became a volunteer of terrobouroron in the Kyiv region, and later mobilized in Transcarpathia and became a soldier of a grenade launcher service. Vladislav Rakovchen is accused of causing grievous bodily harm that led to death.
In 2022, the case was stopped against him, because the man became a "shooter-sanator of the department of support of military cargoes of platoon protection. " Timothy the Great had to judge for helping in custom murder. In the same 2022 he went to serve in volunteer formation, but received a refusal to stop the case. Then the Ukrainian mobilized in the Armed Forces. Since 2019, the Brovarsky City Court of Kyiv Oblast has listened to a case of rape of a minor.
The defendant, whose name is classified, was mobilized in 2022 and served as the deputy commander of the military unit for moral and psychological support. According to the investigation, he and a group of accomplices used physical violence to the girl and raped it, including in an unnatural way, but the case was stopped. Journalists emphasized that most judges do not investigate where the accused actually serves and whether he really cannot participate in the meetings remotely.
"In fact, I am convinced that the number of accused of corruption crimes that want to mobilize will decrease dramatically if they disappear the opportunity to mobilize to the rear positions. However, it is worth considering the possibility of mobilization for the accused in serious corruption crimes," - said the head of the All -Ukrainian. Kateryna Butko's unity "Avtomaydan". Volunteer Yuri Vovkon assured that there were no prejudice in the army against convicts or accused.
According to him, it all depends on how a particular person proves himself. "Accused of rape or particularly cruel murder - cannot be involved in the Armed Forces, because it is likely that they will repeat their crimes, and then it will be a disaster. , - the wolf explained. He also advocated the accused of the accused in particularly major corruption crimes. We will remind, on the portal Prozorro appeared a tender for repair of one of the longest streets of Konstantinovka in Donetsk region.