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The Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) No. 13-r/2020 deprived the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) of the opportunity to issue administrative protocols related to conflicts of interest. However, the Articles of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses, which provide for liability for such offenses, remain in force. Despite this, some courts began to close cases of conflict of interest on the basis of the CCU’s Decision. In this regard, Oleksandr Novikov, Head of the NACP, addressed Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and Valentyna Dan...

The Commercial Court of Kyiv City considered the claim of Altaiur LLC against the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) in the case 910/8593/20. The court supported the position of the NACP and denied Altaiur LLC in full satisfaction of the claim. Earlier, Altaiur LLC filed a lawsuit to protect the honor, dignity and business reputation in connection with the information published on the NACP website. The claimant requested to collect UAH 1,000,000 of public funds in its favour. Thus, UAH 1,000,000 remains in the budget. What is the substance of the case? This summer, Alta...

The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe published a draft opinion on the situation in Ukraine, which has developed in connection with the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) on the e-declaration system. The draft Opinion states, inter alia, that the punishment in the form of imprisonment for intentional failure to submit a declaration and intentionally providing inaccurate information to a certain extent must be maintained. This limit in all registered draft laws to implement the CCU’s Decision has been doubled – from 250 to 500 amounts of minimum subsistence level ...

All cases concerning providing inaccurate information in declarations for 2015–2019 will be closed in view of the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine No. 13-r/2020. Thus, these cases can never be considered again and their participants are completely released from liability. This was stated by Oleksandr Novikov, Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), on a special broadcast of Channel 24, dedicated to International Anti-Corruption Day. “A total of 4,700 cases were registered by law enforcement agencies, and it’s not just by the Anti-Corruption Bureau, it’...

On December 9, the International Anti-Corruption Day, the Integrity Building Office, launched its own webpage. The Integrity Building Office is a new program area of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) and was established after the Agency’s reboot. The Office is responsible for awareness-raising and training activities, as well as interaction with civil society. The mission of the Office is to launch change in order to build an integrity-based society. “Integrity and openness are essential in preventing corruption. The Integrity Building Office has been active since July ...

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) and the mobile operator Lifecell are launching a joint Telecom Against Corruption project. This initiative is the first example of a public-private partnership in Ukraine aimed to effectively encourage the detection of corruption offenses. The relevant Memorandum was signed during a meeting on International Anti-Corruption Day. The purpose of the Telecom Against Corruption project is to encourage all telecom market participants, civil servants and local authorities that interact with the telecom industry, to strictly comply with the law in...

As of December 1, 2020, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) received 511 reports from political parties for 2020: for Q І — 242 reports; for Q ІІ — 187 reports; for Q ІІІ — 82 reports. Only 242 parties submitted reports for this year. In total, according to the Ministry of Justice, 361 political parties are registered in Ukraine, 12 of which were established this year. In 2019, 275 parties submitted their reports. Thus, 72 parties did not report on their activities even for 2019. It should be noted that the deadline for submission of reports this year, even ...

The Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) Oleksandr Novikov sent an official letter to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy regarding the draft law № 4460-d, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on December 4. In the letter, Oleksandr Novikov notes that this draft law does not provide imprisonment for persons who intentionally do not submit an e-declaration or intentionally indicate inaccurate information in it. Therefore, the Verkhovna Rada recognizes these actions not as crimes, but as criminal misdemeanors. That means that the corrupt official ...

The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) detected and analyzed corruption schemes in the procedure of free of charge privatization of state and municipal land. The draft Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2020–2024 defines that the free of charge privatization of state and municipal land is one of the largest sources of corrupt practices in land relations. As the procedure for transferring land ownership requires radically new organizational and legal approaches to ensuring the effective disposal of state and municipal land, the NACP analyzed the most common corruption schemes relat...

On November 30, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) noted that the draft law No. 4441, developed by the Working Group, envisaged only fines and community service for officials that intentionally failed to submit declarations or knowingly provided false information. Yesterday, on December 3, the Committee on Law Enforcement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine considered this and other related draft laws. As a result of consideration, it was decided to submit a new draft law (No. 4460-d). The NACP notes that this draft law also does not envisage imprisonment for either intenti...