One type of financial control entrusted to the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) by the Law of Ukraine “On Corruption Prevention” is the control over the completeness of public servants' declaration filing, which is defined by the relevant Procedure. Since the beginning of 2025, the NACP has conducted 110 such controls, during which it established that officials' declarations contained inaccurate information exceeding UAH 180 million.
Following the results of these measures, the National Agency sent 26 reasoned conclusions to law enforcement agencies regarding the detection of signs of false declaration (Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) concerning amounts over UAH 133 million. Courts delivered guilty verdicts in criminal proceedings initiated based on NACP's conclusions against ten officials and assigned them punishments in the form of fines. In one case, the declarant was sentenced to community service.
In addition, while auditing the completeness of declarations, the NACP identified signs of officials intentionally providing knowingly false information totaling over 41 million UAH. Based on these facts, the Agency drafted and sent 52 reasoned conclusions to the National Police of Ukraine regarding the detection of signs of financial control violations (Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses).
Based on court decisions resulting from National Police protocols, which were drawn up according to NACP conclusions, 22 individuals were found guilty of violating declaration requirements and fined.
It is worth noting that the National Agency most often finds signs of violations in the declarations of local council deputies (39.7%) and officials of state authorities and local self-government bodies of various levels (32%).
For example, the head of a village council in Voznesensk district, Mykolaiv region, and a deputy of a village council in Berezivka district, Odesa region, were found guilty by a court of falsely declaring information. In the first case, the official was obliged to pay a fine; in the second, the punishment was 150 hours of community service.
The court also deprived both declarants of the right to hold positions related to organizational, administrative, and economic functions in local self-government bodies for a period of one year.
Furthermore, members of military medical commissions (MMC) remain among those who violate financial control requirements. Specifically, one MMC official in Odesa region was fined and deprived of the right to hold positions or engage in activities related to the performance of state or local self-government functions for one year for entering inaccurate information into the declaration exceeding UAH 10.3 million.
Information about the declarants was also entered into the Unified State Register of Persons Who Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offenses.
It should be recalled that when controlling the completeness of a public servant's declaration, the NACP's software calculates a completeness index—a numerical indicator of the volume and content level of the information reflected in the declaration compared to the information contained in state registers.
Authorized representatives of the Agency compare the volume and content of the reflected information with data available in information and telecommunication and reference systems, registers, databases, including those containing restricted access information, and other sources of information, to identify inaccurate information in the declaration.
Based on the control results, an act on the results of the completeness check of the declaration is drawn up and signed in duplicate, one copy of which is sent to the declarant.
For knowingly providing false information in a declaration, a person may be subject to criminal, administrative, and disciplinary liability.
