The bill appeared on the parliament’s website on Nov. 9. Under
current rules, security-force service members can submit financial disclosures
only 90 days after martial law ends or after they leave the service. According
to the bill’s explanatory note, the rule applies to everyone, regardless of
whether they are engaged in combat. As a result, employees of rear and
administrative units have remained outside financial oversight for years.
The bill would preserve the disclosure deferment for members
of the Ukrainian armed forces, National Guard, State Border Guard Service,
State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, State
Protection Department and State Special Transport Service, as well as police
special forces personnel involved in combat.
Service members of other government agencies, including the
SBU, would be allowed to postpone filing a disclosure only if they are directly
participating in combat on the final day of the filing period. Subsequent
involvement in combat would not extend the deadline.
Those who have not filed disclosures since 2021 would have
to do so within 90 days after the law takes effect. The bill also clarifies
whose disclosures may be closed for security reasons, whose may not and how
public access to them should be restored.
On Nov. 4, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of
Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO)
announced they had uncovered a drug syndicate with suspected Russian ties as
part of the Carthage investigation. Investigators believe the syndicate
operated under the protection of SBU and National Police officials. Its members
are suspected of running fraudulent call centers, trafficking drugs, producing
counterfeit cigarettes and counterfeiting foreign currency.
At approximately 1 p.m. that day, NABU detectives detained
SBU Gen. Serhii Duka. Ukrainska Pravda and Babel, citing sources, reported that
National Police officials Volodymyr Tsenov and Oleksandr Demianchuk, along with
boxing club founder Vitalii Rybalko, were also detained. SBU chief Oleksandr
Poklad dismissed two senior security service officials implicated in the
investigation.