During the period of martial law, almost all mechanisms of financial control were put on hold. Declarations have become optional, and full verifications of declarations have been suspended. Despite the fact that the public insists on the restoration of financial control, and the petition to the President gained the necessary 25,000 votes in just a few days, the relevant draft law, registered by parliamentarians back in the fall, has not yet been considered by the Verkhovna Rada.
Although declarations can be submitted freely, officials and deputies are in no hurry to report to Ukrainians. Only 1,366 judges, seven MPs’ and one current minister submitted their annual declaration for 2021.
"The statistics of filing declarations for 2021 and 2022 are disappointing. We are following one negative trend — the more power and opportunities for corruption a certain category has, the fewer declarations are filed among them. The number of submitted declarations among top officials or MPs’, judges of higher courts is generally close to zero. But we cannot simply wait for the parliamentarians to restore the duty to declare when corruption scandals break out in the country one after another. That is why the Agency uses another mechanism of financial control of the wealth of officials and MPs’ — lifestyle monitoring to partially compensate for full financial control"? - said Artem Sytnyk, Deputy Head of the NACP.
Citizens can report known facts to the NACP so that we can check any public official to see if his standard of living is consistent with legitimate income.
What should be done for this?
Contact the NACP via e-mail address: info@nazk.gov.ua with information about the possible discrepancy between the standard of living of a public servant and his income.
In order for your message to be considered faster, we recommend:
- indicate in the subject of the letter "Information for lifestyle monitoring";
- provide actual data about cars, houses, trips or other assets that the official or deputy has purchased, but you believe that the official sources of income of this public official do not allow him such purchases or standard of living.
