Corruption & Investigations

Corruption & Investigations

“Mobilized on Paper Only”: Ukrainian Recruitment Chiefs Charged With Faking Hundreds of Conscriptions in the National Military Registry

Ukraine's National Police charged district recruitment center heads in the Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions with entering false mobilization data into the Obrih registry, including records of people who never existed. Investigators documented 631 falsified entries in one case; prosecutors cite at least 857 across five suspects.

Corruption & Investigations

Deputy head of Kharkiv patrol police failed to return from vacation abroad — while oblast police chief keeps his post despite scandals

Police lieutenant colonel Yaroslav Diiank, the de facto head of the Kharkiv oblast patrol police directorate, failed to report for duty on September 7 after a vacation abroad and, according to an anonymous source, has not returned to Ukraine. His post has already been filled by an officer from Poltava region, while oblast police chief Petro Tokar keeps his post despite a string of corruption scandals.

Corruption & Investigations

$1,500 and $5,000 for a “student” status: two cases expose a persistent weakness in Ukraine’s mobilization deferment system

Two criminal cases reported on September 7, 2026 — a $1,500 fake-enrollment offer in Kyiv and a $5,000 customs scheme in Ternopil region — highlight how student status can be exploited to obtain mobilization deferments, and why the state’s digital registration system cannot by itself verify the honesty of the data it receives.

Corruption & Investigations

Ukraine anti-corruption court detains Prosecutor General’s Office official over alleged call-center protection scheme

Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court ordered Prosecutor General’s Office official Serhii Kropyva into pretrial detention with UAH 120 million bail in the “Carthage” call-center case. NABU and SAPO allege protection of fraudulent call centers and money laundering; Kropyva and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko deny the claims.