The SBU is collecting 65 million for bail for General Duka: regional units involved in the collection

In the Security Service of Ukraine, money has been collected for the bail of SBU General Serhiy Duka, who is currently in custody. The High Anti-Corruption Court set his bail at 65 million hryvnias.

ZN.UA reports this, citing sources in law enforcement; employees from various SBU departments, including regional offices, are being involved in the collection.

According to sources, operatives, officers of the Department for National Statehood Protection, and units of the economic direction are being required to transfer 50 thousand hryvnias each. Chiefs of sectors, deputies, and heads of departments must contribute 150 thousand hryvnias each. In the regions, SBU employees are also instructed to transfer their own money directly to the account of NACP (the National Anticorruption Bureau), after which they should take screenshots of payment documents and send them to their supervisor. Department heads compile lists of those who transferred funds and report to their Kyiv leadership. Employees are promised the money back in cash, but when exactly this will happen and how the return will take place are not being communicated.

Additionally, inside the SBU, discussions are underway about a planned Wednesday, 11 November meeting of the heads of four departments with the head of the fourth SBU directorate, Taras Tymoshchuk. According to staff, cash may be issued during the meeting for further deposit through representatives of commercial structures. Sources also report that 6 November, employees were paid an advance four days earlier than usual. Insiders associate this with money being raised for Duka's bail.

Many SBU officers who are fighting on the front line are shocked by the sums mentioned in the agreement of former department head Artem Shil. And now they are being forced to dip into their own money for the bail of the “prince of schemes.”

4 November, investigators from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and employees of the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office uncovered a criminal organization whose participants paid money to high-ranking SBU and National Police officials for operation of fraudulent call centers, counterfeiting euros, and drug sales. On the same day, Duka, who appears under the alias “Akim” in the new NDAU transcripts, was detained. During searches at the home of the SBU general, “Alpha” fighters were deployed; Duka also smashed phones and a hard drive with a hammer. He also threatened to use weapons against the detectives.

Earlier, Duka and the head of the Main Department of Internal Security Anton Kravchuk oversaw the forceful direction of the operation against detectives of anti-corruption bodies and investigative journalists from Bihus.info. In September 2025, editor Ina Vedernykova of ZN.UA wrote about their activities in the article “Special services from the lamp: can you cap the gin released by Zelensky?” Kravchuk and Duka, after Vasyl Malyuk’s ouster from the head of the SBU, aligned themselves with the new agency head Oleksandr Pohoda.

In February 2026, the President of Ukraine awarded Duka a new rank — major general (three years earlier he had been promoted to brigadier general, and in March this year the president conferred this rank on Kravchuk as well). The Center for Combating Corruption stated that the new ranks for Duka and Kravchuk were their reward for attacks on SAP and NABU in the summer of the previous year. They added that the president “bears full responsibility for the actions of the head of the rear SBU.”