What is the punishment for a fake medical certificate: instructions for potential mobilized

Russians began to be interested in announcements of a fake diagnosis

The record number of requests on the Internet concerns two phrases: “delay from mobilization” and “buy a medical certificate.” Fraudsters began to use it very quickly and deftly. They are ready to issue a false certificate with a false diagnosis to the conscript. And this pleasure costs from 100 to 200 thousand rubles. However, it is unlikely to succeed with these fake papers, lawyers say. If a person is sick, the draft board will raise the entire archive, all his medical records, study the history in detail and doubt the diagnosis if it was not traced in any other previous document.

“There is a special list of diseases that will not be taken for a special operation,” says therapist Marina Patrusheva. – We are talking about mental disorders, endocrine disorders, neoplasms and blood diseases. Infectious and parasitic diseases are also included here. And here, it would seem, it is easy to fabricate something like borreliosis or HIV infection. However, if the patient has never been observed with such a serious illness in a state medical institution, he will have to take tests “again” – already in an independent laboratory. And show visual manifestations of the disease.

I must say that it is impossible to imitate the same immunodeficiency. Painful thinness and bags under the eyes are not enough arguments.

But this is not the whole list of diseases for which they give a deferment. It also includes diseases of the eyes, ear, blood, respiratory and digestive organs, genitourinary system and skin. We all remember the good old movie where the pioneer dived into the thickets of nettles, and then became covered in blisters. The draftee can theoretically also harm his skin. However, he will be taken out to clean water very quickly, putting him in a hospital.

“Once upon a time, conscripts used such a trouble-free method as urinary incontinence,” says Patrusheva. – You are put in the hospital, and you continue to show the nannies every morning a wet sheet. But it “rolled” about 20 years ago. Now there are all kinds of tests, including ultrasound diagnostics, which allow to exclude this diagnosis.

Perhaps, with partial mobilization, the verification of the diagnosis according to medical documents may not be so thorough and strict, and even more so with the involvement of a hospital. By the way, this is what scammers are counting on, both those who sell certificates and those who buy them. But if you are caught on a fake, you definitely can’t get away from criminal punishment.

“After establishing the fact of providing forged documents, including fake medical certificates, a person is held criminally liable for a crime under part 5 of article 327 “Using a knowingly forged document,” says lawyer Olga Shatskaya. – Shall be punished with restriction of liberty for up to two years. And there is also article 328 “Evasion of military service.” It’s 2 more years.

Lawyer Elena Ponomareva deciphered the types of punishment for forging documents in more detail:

– Depending on the qualification of the act, in accordance with Part 5 of Art. 327 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, forgery of documents is punishable by a fine in the amount of up to 80 thousand rubles, or in the amount of the wage or salary, or any other income of the convicted person for a period of up to six months, or by compulsory work for a term of up to 480 hours, or by corrective labor for a term of up to two years, or by arrest. for a period of up to six months, in the event that a person knowingly had information that the document was forged.

Signs of a fake medical certificate:

1. No blotting left from printing or stamps on the back. Only the so-called “wet seal” leaves a mark on the other side

2. No pressure on the signature. The paper should push against the writing, no matter what pressure is used.

3. Unusual font

4. Vague caption

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 28888 dated October 12, 2022

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Sloped off – you sit down: what really shines for a fake medical certificate