The former head of the Sambir District Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support (TCR), 45-year-old Colonel Bohdan Semenyna, has been served with a notice of suspicion for intentionally submitting false information in his asset declaration (Part 1, Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Law enforcement officers uncovered concealed assets and unexplained wealth totaling more than 4.5 million UAH ($109,000). The state investigation followed a comprehensive audit by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) conducted alongside the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and the Western Region Defense Prosecution Office.
According to investigators, the former military official failed to declare significant real estate assets in his 2024 annual declaration submitted while still in service. Specifically, he omitted a newly built apartment in Lviv valued at over 1.8 million UAH.
Although the property rights were registered in his wife’s name, the official falsely reported in his official filings that neither he nor his family members held any rights to unfinished construction or real estate properties.
In addition to the hidden apartment, financial analysts uncovered severe discrepancies between the family’s official income and their declared cash holdings. Their actual liquid assets far exceeded what they could have legitimately saved based on verifiable earnings:
Official’s Personal Cash: Semenyna declared over 2.5 million UAH in cash, whereas his verified income accounted for no more than 684,000 UAH—leaving an unexplained gap of over 1.8 million UAH.
Spouse’s Cash Savings: The declaration listed $40,000 USD and 376,000 UAH held by his wife, yet her total verified earnings allowed for a maximum savings of 1.2 million UAH, resulting in an unaccounted difference of 840,600 UAH.
«The total amount of false information in the official’s declaration exceeded 4.5 million UAH. He is charged with the intentional submission of knowingly false declaration data,» law enforcement authorities stated.
Judicial authorities are currently determining a preventive measure for the suspect. This is not the first legal trouble for the former Sambir draft office head; he was previously exposed in a separate corruption scheme involving the fictitious military enrollment of an acquaintance to help him dodge mobilization.
The case forms part of a broader crackdown on public sector corruption across Ukraine. Related operations recently saw a State Food and Consumer Service official detained in the Odesa region for accepting a $5,000 bribe, and an official in the Dnipropetrovsk region indicted for soliciting bribes in exchange for college admissions.