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A recent ruling by the Constitutional Court (CCU) has significantly complicated the process of analyzing the financial statements of political parties. Thus, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has lost the right to send requests for information to businesses and individuals, and thus fully verify the information in the reports. Below is the outline of the major consequences of such a change. Why is this important? Prior to the CCU’s decision, the NACP could verify whether data in the financial reports of political parties corresponded to their actual revenues and e...

Due to the adoption of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine dated 27.10.2020 No. 13-р/2020, the National Agency of Corruption Prevention (NACP) was forced to file motions to the court to close proceedings in 62 cases. These include cases on the following officials: Oleh Hladkovskyi, ex-first deputy of the CNSD Secretary; Oleksandr Tupytskyi, Constitutional Court of Ukraine’s chief judge; Oleh Liashko, ex-Member of Parliament; Nestor Shufrych, Member of Parliament; Serhii Taruta, Member of Parliament; Ihor Nasalyk, ex-Minister of Energy and Coal Industry; ...

An intransigent stance of anti-corruption agencies on all issues relating to their competence has led to the decision by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) on the unconstitutionality of certain provisions of the Law “On Corruption Prevention,” – Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) Oleksandr Novikov shared in “Svoboda Slova” program on ICTV channel. “The NACP began comprehensive checks of declarations only in May this year. Full inspections became one of the reasons for the CCU to adopt the decision. Since May alone, the NACP revealed half a billion hryvnias ...

Due to the decision by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine dated 27.10.2020 No. 13-р/2020, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) was deprived of the opportunity to draw up reports on administrative offenses, including with regard to violation of legislative limitations on accepting gifts by officials. Taking advantage of the situation created by the CCU, officials may feel free to accept valuable gifts and “pay back” their donors while avoiding liability, as the mechanism for countering such offenses and the inevitability of punishment has been destroyed. “If an official ac...