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The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) highlights the vital importance of restoring criminal liability for false information in officials' declarations by the end of this year. Only then it is possible to prosecute dishonest officials for lying in the declarations for 2020. We would like to note that according to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, any changes to it must be introduced by a separate law. Therefore, in order to return criminal liability for stating false information in the declaration, a separate document should be developed, the rapid adoption of which is possible onl...

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...

Among the goals of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is to simplify the process of filling out declarations for honest officials, both technically and legally. The Head of the NACP, Oleksandr Novikov, stated so in his interview to the Ukrainian Radio. “We would like to simplify as much as possible. Including both the technical part and the legal part of filling out declarations. All persons who do not engage in corrupt practices work for the benefit of citizens; it should be very easy for them to fill out a declaration,” – stated the Head of the NACP. He added that ...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted, in the first reading, the draft Law 3450, amending several legislative acts of Ukraine with regard to streamlining certain issues of whistleblower protection. Law 3450 provides for the creation of a unified portal to receive whistleblower reports. Currently, a whistleblower has to turn to different state authorities to report different corruption offenses and spend time searching for the “appropriate” state authority; implementation of the initiative will enable him/ her to file the report conveniently and promptly at the unified portal that will auto...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopteda draft law 4135 “On the Principles of State Anti-Corruption Policy for 2020–2024 (Anti-Corruption Strategy)”, developed by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP). 320 Members of Parliament voted for this decision. The MPs also supported the finalization of the draft law within just one week. "Adoption of the Anti-Corruption Strategy in today's conditions is a logical and necessary step, as this document gives a chance to not just to restore the anti-corruption system, but to ensure its further development," said Head of NACP Oleksandr...