In March 202 National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) began conducting 92 full audits of declarations selected under the new risk-based approach.
These declarations have passed the logical and arithmetic control (LAC) and received the highest risk rating as of the date of their selection. In addition, full audits have been launched based on reports of possible false asset declarations.
These are the declarations of:
- Members of Parliament (two declarations);
- a member of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (one declaration);
- civil servants of category "B" (32 declarations);
- Deputy Ministers (three declarations);
- heads of regional councils, district state administrations (three declarations);
- judges (one declaration);
- prosecutors (six declarations), including deputy regional prosecutors (two declarations);
- Investigators, detectives, police officers (10 declarations);
- directors of state and municipal enterprises, their deputies (12 declarations);
- deputies of local councils (14 declarations, including six from regional councils).
The declarants received notifications of the start of the verification in their personal accounts in the Declarations Register.
As of the end of March, 281 full verifications of declarations were in progress. The declarants selected for verification work in the following areas
- local self-government bodies (deputies of local councils - 41 declarations, including 12 declarations of deputies of regional councils);
- pre-trial investigation and prosecution authorities (25 declarations, including three declarations of deputy regional prosecutors);
- Judicial authorities (20 declarations, including 15 judges);
- customs and tax authorities (20 declarations, including two by heads of customs, six by other customs officers, and 12 by tax officers);
- management of state-owned enterprises (15 declarations of heads);
- the legislative branch (six declarations of members of parliament).
First of all, these are officials from Kyiv city (104 declarations), Odesa region (24 declarations), Lviv region (17 declarations), Kyiv region (15 declarations), Kharkiv region (13 declarations), Cherkasy region (13 declarations), Dnipropetrovs'k region (11 declarations), and others.
The NACP has completed full audits of the first 15 declarations, which revealed signs of inaccurate information worth more than UAH 9 million. These are the declarations of:
- the head of the department of the Territorial Department of the Judicial Protection Service in Mykolaiv region, where false information worth UAH 3.3 million was found in the declaration for 2021 (signs of an offense under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code were established);
- an employee of the Odesa Regional State Administration, where false information worth UAH 2.4 million was found in the declaration for 2021 (signs of an offense under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and UAH 1.1 million in the declaration for 2022 (signs of an offense under Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine);
- the first vice-rector of Lviv State University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where false information worth UAH 695 thousand was found in the declaration for 2021 (signs of an offense under Part 4 of Article 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine were established).
The relevant materials were sent to the National Police of Ukraine for consideration of initiating criminal proceedings under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and drawing up a report of administrative offense under Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses. The list of persons in respect of whom the full investigation has been launched, as well as the results of the investigations, can be found here.
We emphasize that the start of a full inspection does not mean that the declarant has committed a corruption or corruption-related offense.
If the NACP reveals violations, it will take measures to bring the person to statutory liability and, if there are grounds, will send materials to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office to decide on the confiscation of unjustified assets.
The risk rating of the submitted declarations for the reporting periods of 2021-2023 is ongoing. After all declarations have passed the LAC in about a month, a stable risk rating of declarations from higher to lower will be formed. Read more about this here.
