In Moscow, 22 criminal cases were opened for evasion of military service (Part 1 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code) against natives of Central Asia who received Russian citizenship, the capital’s department of the Investigative Committee reports.
“More than 80 citizens have been sent to serve in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the message says.
The department notes that investigators, together with employees of military registration and enlistment offices, are “studying the personal files of conscripts” in order to find dodgers. Afterwards, the legality of their acquisition of Russian citizenship is “checked.” The Investigative Committee added that a person may be deprived of acquired citizenship if he evades the army or alternative service.
The day before, the department reported the initiation of 12 similar criminal cases, and on Thursday — about two against natives of Tajikistan born in 2004 and 2005: on October 22, they escaped from a collection point, from where they were supposed to be sent to military service.
On October 20, as Mamut Useinov, a finalist of the show “Sing a Star” on Channel One, said, security forces staged a raid in a Muslim prayer house in Kotelniki near Moscow. According to the artist, riot police “under the pretext of checking documents” detained him and other men and sent them to the military registration and enlistment office of the city of Lyubertsy.
Three days later it became known that Useinov was sent to a military unit. “Important Stories” found out that as a result of the same raid, 19-year-old member of the Russian judo team Muhammad Negmatov was also sent to the unit.
