The anti-corruption committee made a conclusion on the government draft law No. 10378 on mobilization and found a number of norms in it that could cause corruption risks.
This was reported by the head of the committee Anastasia Radina.
The Ministry of Defense agreed with the comments, so the committees are already working on changing procedures and approaches.
Here is what, in the opinion of the anti-corruption committee, needs to be improved in the draft law:
- Do not entrust the local self-government bodies with the duty to "ensure the arrival" of conscripts in the territorial recruit center (TRC). Local government can provide transport, but not use coercion. The obligation to "ensure arrival" without specifying the method "may give rise to arbitrariness."
- Determine the terms and conditions under which the TRC can initiate the entry of conscripts into the register of debtors with further restrictions. The head of the TRC should not be able to enter someone into the register the day after the non-arrival (since the conscript may not arrive for good reasons), while others are "unnoticed" for months.
- Depriving the district and city commissions on referrals for military service and higher-level commissions of the right to grant citizens deferments from referrals to basic military service (this is not mobilization).
According to Radina, it is also necessary to finalize the overcoming of corruption in the military medical commissions and medical and social expert commissions, the procedures for confirming the circumstances that are grounds for postponement of mobilization.
The anti-corruption committee examines all draft laws at the first reading stage for corruption risks.
- Ukraine is strengthening control over military records. On the evening of December 25, 2023, the government submitted draft laws No. 10378, No. 10379 to the parliament. The first document provides for changes to mobilization and military service, and the second — strengthening responsibility for military offenses. Read more about them here.
- If it is adopted without significant changes, then all men between the ages of 18 and 60 will have 30 days to apply to the TRC, clarify their data, place of residence, etc. They will also be required to carry military registration documents with them and show them at the request of TRC employees or the police.
- However, on January 2, 2024, the deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy Yevhenia Kravchuk said that the Verkhovna Rada would not consider the draft law on mobilization in its original version. They will still work on the document. On January 4, the specialized committee of the Verkhovna Rada began consideration of a new draft law on mobilization. It will be discussed with the command of the Armed Forces.