In December 2024, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) completed 71 full audits of declarations selected under the new risk-based approach. Inaccurate information was found in 34 declarations (48% of the completed ones) for UAH 438.5 million.
The company sent 35 substantiated conclusions to the competent authorities and drew up 4 reports on administrative violations.
Top 10 violations revealed in declarations based on the results of full audits in December:
- Supreme Court judges, signs of false information worth more than UAH 1.8 million in their 2023 declarations. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) attached the materials of the full audit to the criminal proceedings;
- the Director of the Department of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development of the executive body of the Kyiv City Council (Kyiv City State Administration), found signs of false information in the amount of over UAH 22.3 million in the declaration for 2023. The National Police of Ukraine (NPU) initiated criminal proceedings under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (CCU);
- a former member of the disciplinary commission of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine, found signs of false information worth more than UAH 7.7 million in his 2022 declaration. The NPU initiated criminal proceedings under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code;
- the former deputy head of the Transcarpathian Customs Department, found signs of false information worth over UAH 306.9 million in the declaration for 2023. A substantiated conclusion was sent to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI);
- a deputy of the Kharkiv City Council, found signs of false information worth more than UAH 11.3 million in his 2022 declaration. The NPU initiated criminal proceedings under Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code;
- the village head of Novolativske village council of Kryvyi Rih district, Dnipro region, found signs of false information worth over UAH 2.1 million in his 2021 declaration and over UAH 2.4 million in his 2022 declaration. The NPU initiated criminal proceedings under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code;
- the former deputy head of the Rivne District State Administration, found signs of inaccurate information in the declaration for 2021 amounting to more than UAH 745 thousand. The substantiated conclusion was sent to the NPU;
- the former head of the State Ecological Inspectorate of the Carpathian District, found signs of false information worth more than UAH 1.1 million in his declaration for 2022. The NACP drew up a report on an administrative offense under Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses (CAO), which, together with the materials, was sent to court;
- the former head of the State Agency of Land Reclamation and Fisheries of Ukraine, signs of false information in the declaration for 2022 amounting to more than UAH 317 thousand were found. Evidence is being collected in the proceedings on administrative offense under Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses;
- the Head of the Department of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in Kyiv, found signs of false information in the declaration for 2022 amounting to more than UAH 1.3 million. Evidence is being collected in the proceedings on an administrative offense under Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
In total, in 2024, NACP launched 1019 full audits of declarations, of which 715 were completed.
The completed audits revealed inaccurate information, signs of illicit enrichment or unjustified assets, as well as violations of conflicts of interest in 358 declarations or 50% of the completed ones, i.e. in every second declaration audited.
For comparison: in 2021, such violations were found in 27% of completed full audits of declarations (out of 1043 completed audits, violations were found in 282 declarations).
So far, in 2024, signs of false information have been identified for UAH 3.8 billion, signs of unreasonable assets for more than UAH 47 million, and signs of illicit enrichment for UAH 192.1 million.
Based on the results of the full audits, 220 substantiated conclusions were sent to the competent authorities on the grounds of Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Declaration of false information”, 8 substantiated conclusions on the grounds of Art. 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Illegal enrichment”.
The Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations was entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations based on the results of reviewing 184 substantiated conclusions, 5 indictments were submitted to the court in criminal proceedings under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “Declaring false information”.
The courts brought 7 persons to administrative liability under Part 4 of Article 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses based on the materials of full audits of declarations, found guilty of committing an offense, but released 1 person from liability under Article 22 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
This indicates that the application of a risk-based approach to the selection of declarations for full verification in 2024 had a positive impact on the effectiveness of the audits.
Among all the completed full audits of declarations, most violations were found in declarations submitted by representatives of
- local authorities - 125. Of these, 76 were filed by local council members, 16 by regional council members; three regional council chairpersons, two city council chairpersons, one district council chairperson, three deputy city mayors, one deputy regional council chairperson, three village council starostas, three village heads, and sixteen other officials;
- Representatives of regional and district state administrations - 24, including one head of Regional State Administration (RSA) and two deputy heads of RSA, heads of district state administrations and three deputy heads of district state administrations, two heads of city military administrations, one deputy head of city military administration, one head of village military administration, and eleven other officials;
- employees of the National Police - 33, including one head of the Patrol Police Department, eleven inspectors, seven heads of structural units in territorial bodies of the National Police and one deputy head of the Central Office Department, and eight patrol police officers;
- state-owned enterprises - 25, of which 17 are heads of such enterprises;
- customs and tax authorities - 13;
- pre-trial investigation bodies - 10;
- judicial authorities - seven, including two judges, 3 jurors and two other persons;
- legislative authorities - five MPs;
- central executive authorities - three deputy ministers;
- military medical commissions - 11.
In addition, the facts of declaring false information were confirmed in 18 out of 21 completed verifications of declarations of officials of Cherkasy region (85.7%); in 9 out of 11 completed verifications of officials of Kirovohrad region (81.8%); in 11 out of 15 completed verifications of officials of Vinnytsia region (73.3%); in 31 out of 51 completed verifications of officials of Kyiv region (60.7%); in 23 out of 38 completed audits - officials of Dnipropetrovska oblast (60.5%), in 33 out of 56 completed audits - officials of Odesa oblast (58.9%); in 11 out of 20 completed audits - officials of Poltava oblast (55%); in 15 out of 35 completed audits - officials of Lviv oblast (42.8%); in 83 out of 239 completed audits of declarations of officials of Kyiv city (34.7%). Kyiv (34.7%).
Important: the start of a full verification does not mean that the declarant has committed a corruption or corruption-related offense. If the results of the inspection reveal violations, the NACP takes measures to bring the person to justice in accordance with the law. If there are grounds, the materials are transferred to the pre-trial investigation authorities, as well as to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for consideration of civil confiscation of unjustified assets.
The list of persons in respect of whom full audits have been initiated, as well as the results of the audits, can be found here.
Read more about what happens to the declaration after it is submitted here.
