Mobilization and corruption

I am a military conscript and I am very afraid of being drafted. Can I be held accountable for paying a bribe to delay my military service?

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Photo of lorina200215 Lorina Fedan

Article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Offering, promising or providing an improper benefit to an official

  1. An offer or promise to an official to provide him or a third person with an unlawful benefit, as well as the provision of such benefit for the official's performance or failure to perform any action in the interests of the person offering, promising or providing such benefit, or in the interests of a third person, using the power or official position granted to him -

shall be punishable by a fine of one thousand to four thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens or by restriction of liberty for a term of two to four years, or by imprisonment for the same term.

  1. The acts provided for in Part One of this Article, committed repeatedly, -

shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of three to six years with a fine of five hundred to one thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, with or without confiscation of property.

  1. The actions provided for in parts one or two of this article, if the unlawful benefit was provided to an official holding a responsible position, or were committed by a group of persons in prior conspiracy, -

shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of four to eight years with or without confiscation of property.

  1. The actions provided for in parts one, two or three of this article, if the unlawful benefit was provided to an official occupying a particularly responsible position, or were committed by an organized group of persons or its member, -

shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of five to ten years with or without confiscation of property.

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