The Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) upheld the decision of the court of first instance, which recognised the assets belonging to the former head of one of the district councils of the Rivne region as unjustified. The amount of assets exceeds UAH 5.6 million.
The basis for this decision was the monitoring of the official's lifestyle, carried out by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), as well as materials from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
During the monitoring, the NACP established that the official had acquired five land plots with a total area of 4 hectares in the Kyiv region.
NACP analysed the former official's income and expenses and established that it was impossible to acquire the specified property from legal income.
The decision of the AC HACC comes into force from the moment it is announced.
It should be noted that, in accordance with the Law of Ukraine ‘On Prevention of Corruption,’ a person authorised to perform functions of the state or local self-government, in respect of whom a court decision on the recognition of assets as unjustified and their confiscation in favour of the state has entered into force, is subject to dismissal from office in accordance with the procedure established by law.
It should be noted that the SAPO prosecutor filed a lawsuit with the High Anti-Corruption Court to recognise the assets belonging to the former head of the Kremenchuk Regional Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Support as unjustified and to recover them as state revenue (civil forfeiture).
