hockey specialist Leonid Weisfeld declared that all players KHL can voluntarily and officially take the military oath so as not to have any problems with the military registration and enlistment office in the future, and also told the service story of the former national team striker Russian and “Washington” Alexandra Semina .
In July, Russian hockey player Ivan Fedotov was arrested in St. Petersburg on suspicion of escaping military service. According to , the 25-year-old goalkeeper will be sworn in on August 6, before that he will be at Severodvinsk training unit.
– According to the media, criminal proceedings have already been opened against three KHL players who “bought” military tickets. Do you think hockey players can get a sentence for this rather serious offence?
– Here we have to wait for comments from the authorities. It should be understood that hockey players are no different from ordinary citizens. And it’s no secret that over the past few years people have tried to escape from the army by will or by force. Someone may have bought military tickets from unscrupulous employees at the military registration and enlistment office. But by doing such things, you understand that you are breaking the law.
You have to be a completely stupid person to get into such trouble. Here, for example, I had the opposite situation with Semin. He didn’t want to go back to Washington,” Weisfeld told .
– Seriously? What year is it?
– After the lockout, it was in the 2004/05 season. He approached me: “I don’t want to go back to America now.” I say, “Well, are we going to put you in the army?” Sasha got into the car, got to Samara, put on her boots, took a machine gun, took an oath … Everything was as it should be. Then he changed and left. He served in the CSK VVS and played in Togliatti.
– But then Semin moved to Atlanta?
– Yes, and we have legally resolved the issue in the Ministry of Defense, Alexander was issued a business trip without any violation of the law. I do not understand why go to some kind of crime, if there are absolutely legal methods. Let’s say Fedotov spent a whole year at CSKA. Already there, he could definitely solve the problem with the army without breaking the law. I just had to take care of this subject. And some don’t want to bother, they think it’s nonsense. For them, it ends in big trouble.
Source : MatchTV
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