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The Administrative Services Centers (ASCs) are to play an important role in the implementation of the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2020-2024, as they offer convenient alternatives to corrupt practices that will contribute to considerable saving of public funds. This was stated today by Oleksandr Novikov, Head of NACP, during an online conference Combating Corruption at the Local Level, organized by the ULEAD with Europe Project. “In case of ensuring social and administrative service provision through Administrative Services Centers, the budget can save up to UAH 10 billion. In other words, ...

As a result of the constitutional crisis, today, one of the main objectives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine remains the restoration of criminal liability for failure to submit a declaration and knowingly providing inaccurate information. In particular, there are ongoing discussions on whether imprisonment should be considered for lying in a declaration. The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) emphasizes that effective corruption prevention is possible only if the new Article of the Criminal Code considers the possibility of imprisonment for intentional false declaration amou...

One of the main priorities of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) in 2020 was to improve the quality of full verification of declarations. It was fundamentally important for us to shift away from the Agency’s old practice of picking on “misprint” in declarations in order to proceed to the detection of actual violations amounting to UAH millions. Thus, among the 97 individuals in whose declarations the NACP found signs of criminal violations, 5 are Ministers of the current and former Governments, 12 Deputy Ministers and 7 judges. To this end, in 2020, the NACP, inter alia,...

Law enforcement agencies closed criminal proceedings for declaring inaccurate information amounting to over UAH 30 million on the basis of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) No. 13-r/2020. These proceedings were registered on the basis of materials sent by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) to law enforcement agencies in 2020 after establishing signs of inaccurate declaration (Art. 366-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) based on the results of full verification of declarations. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine closed the proceedings a...

In view of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 13-r/2020 the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is deprived of the right to monitor the implementation of legislative acts on conflicts of interest. This, in particular, may lead to the fact that the authorities, state and municipal enterprises, institutions and organizations will not resolve situations in which close persons (relatives) work together. How were such cases addressed earlier? The Law of Ukraine on Prevention of Corruption states that a conflict of interest of a public servant is to be resol...

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) filed a complaint with the High Council of Justice (HCJ) against Valentyn Tomylko, a Poltava Court of Appeal judge, who closed the administrative case on the basis of the decision by the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) No. 13-r/2020. Thus, on November 6, the Poltava Court of Appeal overturned the decision of the court of first instance and closed the proceedings in the case of late submission of declarations by an individual, based on the CCU’s Decision. “The Court of Appeal considers that the Decision of the Constitutional Court ...

For the first time, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (the NACP) issued improvement notices to managers of institutions with regard to violation of whistleblower confidentiality rights. Employees of the oblast state administration and the district council disclosed information about whistleblowers to persons whose corrupt actions were mentioned in the reports of these whistleblowers. As the disclosure of such information is a breach of the Law of Ukraine “On Corruption Prevention”, the NACP issued instructions to the heads of the above agencies, requesting an internal investigat...

In October, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (the NACP) entered data into the Unified State Register on 602 persons who committed corruption or corruption-related offences (Corruptionists’ Register) based on the results of processing 1072 judicial decisions. Thus, the data on 87 persons held criminally liable, 503 persons held administratively liable, 12 persons held disciplinarily liable, have been entered into the register. Some persons were held liable several times. In particular, the following persons were held criminally liable for the month of October: 6 council...

Following the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU), only ordinary officials may be held liable for corruption offences. This was stated by the Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, Oleksandr Novikov, during the forum “Dialogues on Reforms: on the way to Vilnius”, organized by the Reanimation Package of Reforms Coalition. “Administrative liability for corruption offences need to be reintroduced. Society should understand that now an ordinary official, relatively speaking, - a senior specialist at any Ministry or government agency, is responsible for corruptio...

On November 19, 2020, the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) overturned judgement concerning the former Director of State Enterprise “Lviv Bronetankovyi Zavod” State Enterprise, Roman Tymkiv, who had previously been found guilty of declaring false information. This became possible due to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine’s (CCU) dated 27.10.2020 No. 13-p/2020 which abolished the responsibility for declaring false data. On May 27th, 2020, the HACC found the official guilty of entering false information into declarations (Article 36-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Former ...