Semenyna Bogdan Ivanovych

Ukrainian serviceman, colonel, employee of the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC)

For a long time, he held the position of head of the Sambir District Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TRC and SS) in the Lviv region. Aware of the risks of investigations, he later initiated a transfer to Lviv to head one of the departments of the Lviv Regional TRC. However, he could not avoid responsibility — the colonel became a figure in high-profile criminal proceedings by the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and anti-corruption checks by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP).

Virtual soldier and the “Oberig” database

In January 2026, the Territorial Department of the SBI in Lviv officially announced criminal suspicion against Bohdan Semenyna. The investigation established that in April 2025, while serving as head of the Sambir TRC, the colonel carried out unauthorized interference in official databases. Without any legal grounds, he entered false information into the information system (including the “Oberig” register) about an acquaintance of conscription age, registering him as an active serviceman serving in a unit. In reality, the “virtual soldier” was sitting at home, but thanks to the false record, could freely move around the country and reliably avoid real mobilization.

Cash scams and "painting" millions

In early September 2026, a new financial scandal erupted around Semenyna. The NACP completed a full check of his declaration and found false data amounting to 4.5 million hryvnias. In 2023, his wife purchased property rights to an apartment in Lviv for 1.83 million UAH, but the asset was simply “forgotten” to be listed in the declaration. Separately, investigators paid attention to his wife’s private entrepreneur (PE) business, which declared an income of 5 million hryvnias per year, although bank activity showed that money was merely passing through and immediately withdrawn, which indicates fictitious operations to legalize shadow funds of the TRC.