Corruption in the TCC adds fuel to the fire of scandals surrounding the mobilization. Thus, according to the Ukrainian media, the ex-leader of Sambir RTCC and JV Serhii Babich and his relatives were able to afford to buy several apartments in Lviv and Kyiv in just a few years, bought new cars and considerable funds. For example, in the declaration for 2023, Babich indicated 1.8 million hryvnias of salary in the TCC and another 4.6 million hryvnias of other income. In general, his entire family declared 8 million 377 thousand UAH of income.
The military commission claims that he purchased the property honestly: at the expense of savings, his and his relatives' salaries, as well as a generous gift from his mother in the amount of 42 thousand dollars. Because of this scandal, Babich was fired, but the investigation is still in place. There is still no court decision in the case.
Note that before Babich's dismissal, another loud scandal broke out in the Sambir RTCC. In September 2023, they beat a man there who allegedly evaded duty and tried to cross the border illegally. Workers of the picking center also threatened the man with a gun and openly abused him.
The deputy chief of one of the departments of the Sambir RTCC and the military serviceman-driver of this department were involved in the incident. They were detained.
The day before, it also became known about corruption in the TCC of Ternopil. The police exposed and detained an employee of the Military Commissariat, a staff sergeant, who systematically took bribes with goods from a building materials store in exchange for a promise to be "exempted" from military service. He promised to remove from the databases the information about the fact of serving the summons and non-arrival of conscripts to the military commissariat. He estimated his service at 20-40 thousand hryvnias.
In order to remain unnoticed, the staff sergeant invented his own corruption scheme: evaders paid in the store for the goods chosen by the attacker, including building materials, after which they handed him a check and a bill of lading. With these proofs of payment, the employee of the TCC either took the goods without hindrance, or returned the money for them.
We can mention many more high-profile cases of corruption in the TCC - from the scandalous Odesa ex-military Yevhen Borisov, whose mother-in-law has a villa in Spain; of the estates of the Rivne ex-head of the TCC Serhiy Lutsyuk, who beat a subordinate with a bat, to other "average" cases when employees in the assembly center are involved in "smearing" service evaders for money.
