At Odesa TCC, People Were Beaten, Held and Threatened With Sexual Violence During “Busification.”

According to investigators, six employees of the military enlistment office enlisted three representatives of a “local public organization” to search for men and collect information about them.

Strana.ua, citing sources in the prosecutor’s office, writes that this refers to a group of so-called “volunteer assistants” to military enlistment officers. Formally, they were not listed as part of the TCC, but according to the outlet, they acted under the direct leadership of its employees.

Such groups, Strana.ua’s sources say, are usually used for the dirtiest work that the enlistment officers themselves are afraid to do—above all, for extorting money during so-called “busification.”

According to the outlet, the group detained in the case involving torture, extortion and kidnapping included not three men, but four. One of them did in fact hold the position of “rifleman of the notification group” at the TCC and was an official employee of the military enlistment office. The other three were not serving at the time of their arrest and acted as “volunteer assistants.”

Strana.ua claims that all three had previous convictions: one—several times for theft under Article 185 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code; the second—under Article 309 of the Criminal Code for illegal production or possession of drugs; and the third—for hooliganism.

In the investigative materials, the group appears under the code name “the Delivery case.” The name is linked to a work chat on Telegram that the four suspects called “Delivery.”

According to the outlet, in addition to those detained, the chat included other participants with characteristic nicknames—“TCC chief,” “intake” and others.

Despite the civilian status of most members of the group, “Delivery” received a daily assignment at the TCC—a plan for the “busification” of five people a day.

The group is said to have worked in military uniform, but without chevrons indicating a unit.

According to the outlet, correspondence in the chat shows that the suspects detained men who visually appeared eligible for mobilization. Sometimes the “delivery men” wrote to their superiors that a detainee was “not quite suitable” and had “a bunch of illnesses.” In response, sources say, the management demanded that people be taken to the TCC anyway, where they would “sort it out.”

In addition to the detention quota, the group, according to sources in the prosecutor’s office, also had a financial “norm”: every month, the “delivery men” were supposed to hand over at least $20,000 to the TCC. Part of the money, they allegedly kept for themselves “to live on.”

The group came to the attention of law enforcement on April 13, 2026. According to the investigation, early in the morning on Henoese Street, the suspects forcibly put a draft-age man into a Renault Master service minivan and brutally beat him.

A few days later, the man, who had a deferral from conscription, was able to return home and filed a complaint with the SBI about unlawful kidnapping, torture and threats of a sexual nature. According to him, during the beating, members of the group threatened him with sexual violence and torture using a baton.

After the “assistants” to the military enlistment officers were detained, rubber batons, hammers and handcuffs were found in the service minivan. The investigative materials also repeatedly note that the suspects were working while intoxicated.

Law enforcement officials believe the “Delivery” group had been committing crimes since January 2026.

All the suspects have been remanded in custody until July 26, 2026.