Odesa lawyer Shulyak is suspected of organizing a draft evasion scheme

Odesa lawyer Shulyak is suspected of organizing a draft evasion scheme

Odesa lawyer Ruslan Shulyak is suspected of organizing a group that manufactured forged documents related to the deterioration of the health of servicemen and their family members for the purpose of subsequent release from military service.

This information was learned by the media from sources in the prosecutor’s office under criminal proceedings Article 114-1, Part 1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Ruslan Shulyak previously worked as a legal advisor at the Shyriayivskyi Correctional Center (No. 111) in the Odesa region. This is the center where land was illegally leased to private entrepreneurs. He repeatedly attempted to join the NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) or the Prosecutor General’s Office but did not pass the selection.

Then Shulyak decided to profit from avoiding conscription into the Armed Forces of Ukraine or exemption from the army on health grounds. To produce forgeries, he involved the director of LLC "Contrast-Print" Anatoliy Babenko and Alisa Borulyak. They produced forgeries and sent them via Nova Poshta (a postal service).

Serhiy Ilyushin, Maksym Kulakovskyi, and Yuliya Kulakovska were responsible for finding conscripts in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as in Odesa and the Odesa region, offering their services. The scheme involved Olena Zarytska, Andriy Kozak, and Darya Kudina.

Additionally, the aforementioned Yuliya Kulakovska is a medical registrar at the territorial medical association of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Mykolaiv region. She obtained this position in March this year.

The scheme also involved notary Oksana Hladkykh, who approved fictitious documents.

Currently, Shulyak has closed all his social media pages to public access.