Rear duty has a retail price: commander arrested for extorting $4k from soldier's wife
Staying safe in Lviv sounded great for a fresh recruit, until a military unit commander decided to monetize peace of mind with a personal tariff.
A soldier got mobilized in September and genuinely wanted to stay stationed in Lviv. The commander caught wind of this and decided not to let a solid financial opportunity slide. Instead of talking to the soldier, he went straight to the man's wife.
His pitch was simple: demanding $4,100 to guarantee her husband would be assigned to a unit that never sees combat. He kept checking in to see if she had scraped the cash together. When she came up a bit short, he graciously accepted $3,800.
To seal the deal, the commander sent an unsuspecting relative to pick up the envelope at a local shopping mall. That worked out great right until the police pounced, quickly followed by the commander getting cuffed at a gas station in Sambir.
Some officers view unit deployment orders as a tactical operation, while others clearly treat them as a subscription service.
Source: National Police of Ukraine
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