SBU Detains Zhytomyr Draft Office Chief Over Alleged Bribe Scheme

Overview

• The Security Service of Ukraine arrested the head of Zhytomyr’s regional draft center on suspicion he took cash to keep a company’s employees off mobilization rolls.
• Investigators said he set a monthly fee, collected staff lists with personal data, and promised to shield those workers from checks and at checkpoints.
• Officers recorded several payouts and detained him during a new handoff, then filed suspicion under Article 368, a charge that can carry up to 10 years in prison.
• In a separate incident, the Odesa draft center said a group attacked its van during a transfer of draft‑eligible men, boxing it in, smashing windows, spraying gas, and letting three men run off, and it will refer the case to police.
• Prosecutors pointed to 44 searches and asset seizures in related probes, part of a push to police recruitment centers that run about 90% of Ukraine’s mobilization.