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In the Security Service of Ukraine, money has been collected for the bail of SBU General Serhiy Duka, who is currently under arrest. The High Anti-Corruption Court set his bail at 65 million hryvnias.
This is reported by ZN.UA, citing a law enforcement source, with employees from various SBU units, including regional offices, involved in the collection.
According to sources, operatives, employees of the Department of National Statehood Protection, and units in the economic direction are obligated to transfer 50 thousand hryvnias each. Section chiefs, deputies, and heads of departments must contribute 150 thousand hryvnias each. In the regions, SBU staff are also instructed to transfer their own money directly to the VAKS account, after which they should take screenshots of payment documents and send them to their supervisor. Department heads compile lists of those who have transferred money and report to management in Kyiv. Staff are promised to get their money back in cash, but when exactly this will happen and how the refund will occur has not been announced.
In addition, within the SBU there is discussion of a planned Wednesday, 11 November meeting of the heads of four departments with the head of the Fourth Directorate of the SBU, Taras Tymoshchuk. According to employees, cash may be issued during the meeting for subsequent bail contributions through representatives of commercial structures. Sources also report that 6 November, employees of the SBU received an advance four days earlier than usual. The interviewees tie this to the fund-raising for Duka’s bail.
Many SBU officers who are fighting at the front are shocked by the amounts mentioned in the deal of former head of the SBU department Artyom Shyla. And now they are being forced to contribute their own money to bail for the “prince of schemes.”
4 November, investigators from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and employees of the Specialized Anti-C corruption Prosecutor's Office uncovered a criminal organization whose participants paid money to senior Ukrainian Security Service and National Police officials for the operation of fraudulent call centers, counterfeiting euros, and drug sales. On the same day, Duka, who appears under the alias “Akīm” in the new NABU tapes, was detained. During searches, the Alpha group fighters were drawn to the SBU general’s house, and Duka struck telephones and a hard drive with a hammer. He also threatened to use weapons against the investigators.
Earlier, Duka and the head of the Main Internal Security Directorate, Anton Kravchuk, supervised the forceful direction of the operation against investigators of anti-corruption bodies and journalists from Bihus.info. In September 2025, ZN.UA’s Inna Vedernykova wrote about their activities in the article “Securitites from a lamp: can you cage the gin released by Zelensky?” Kravchuk and Duka, after Vasyl Malyuk’s dismissal as head of the Security Service of Ukraine, aligned with the new head of the agency, Oleksandr Poklad.
In February 2026, the President of Ukraine conferred on Duka the new rank of major general (three years earlier he had been promoted to brigadier general, and in March of this year the president conferred this rank on Kravchuk). The Center for Countering Corruption stated that the new ranks for Duka and Kravchuk were rewards for attacks on the SAP and NABU last summer. They added that the president “bears full responsibility for the actions of the rear SBU leadership.”
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