Ukrainian authorities announced today that they have seized nearly 5 million euros in cash from an official suspected of helping tax evaders avoid military conscription in a country facing a Russian invasion.

The National Bureau of Investigation (DBR) announced that it had discovered “nearly six million dollars” in various coins, as well as jewelry and other valuables, in the apartment and office of the head of the medical commission for the Khmelnytsky region (in the western part of the country), the which is responsible for assessing the suitability of men for conscription.

The director of the commission, identified by the media as Tetiana Krupa, and her son, head of the regional branch of the state pension fund, were taken into custody on Thursday, DBR spokesman Oleg Slobodian told AFP.

Investigators found fake disability documents and lists of patients with “fictitious” medical diagnoses in the official’s office, DBR said in a statement.

The family also has more than two million euros in bank accounts abroad, as well as properties in Ukraine, Austria, Spain and Turkey, according to the same source.

During the investigations, the director of the commission tried to get rid of some of the money by throwing two bags containing more than 450,000 euros out of the window, DBR added.

DBR released photos and video from the investigations, which show a pile of wads of cash in front of a man lying on a bed, who has not been identified.

The two arrested officials are suspected of large-scale fraud and illicit enrichment and face up to 12 years in prison, as well as “the confiscation of all their assets,” according to DBR.

The news sparked outrage on social media at a time when the structures responsible for recruiting soldiers are widely seen as corrupt and the Ukrainian army is facing severe shortages of recruits after more than two and a half years of Russian invasion.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it dismantled a “criminal group of 13 people” in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast, which helped more than 400 men avoid conscription using fake disability documents.

The head of a municipal medical committee and several of his subordinates were members of this group, which offered its services for “$2,000 to $5,000” per person, the SBU said in its statement.