In September 2024, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) completed 77 full audits of declarations selected under the new risk-based approach. NACP found inaccurate information in 41 declarations (53% of the completed ones) for UAH 697 million and signs of unreasonable assets for UAH 6.9 million. In September, 40 substantiated conclusions were sent to the competent authorities and 1 report on an administrative offense was sent to the court.
The top 10 violations based on the results of full inspections in September were found in declarations:
- Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (signs of false information for more than UAH 1.9 million in the declaration for 2021, a substantiated conclusion was sent to the Prosecutor General's Office);
- Head of the Ternopil Regional Council (signs of unreasonable assets worth UAH 2.0 million and signs of unreliable information worth more than UAH 1.5 million in the 2022 declaration; the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has initiated criminal proceedings;
- former deputy head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration (signs of inaccurate information worth more than UAH 9.2 million in the declaration for 2022, a substantiated conclusion was sent to the National Police of Ukraine (NPU);
- the former head of the Sumy Zonal Department of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (signs of inaccurate information in the declaration for 2022 amounting to more than UAH 7.4 million, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) initiated criminal proceedings);
- the former First Deputy Head of the Department of Preventive Activities of the National Police of Ukraine (signs of false information for more than UAH 3.2 million, the State Bureau of Investigation initiated criminal proceedings);
- a deputy of the Poltava Regional Council (signs of inaccurate information for more than UAH 13.5 million in the declaration for 2021, a substantiated conclusion was sent to the NABU);
- a deputy of the Kamianets-Podilskyi City Council (signs of inaccurate information for more than UAH 253.1 million in the declaration for 2021 and for more than UAH 252.1 million in the declaration for 2022, substantiated conclusions were sent to the National Police of Ukraine (NPU));
- a deputy of the Chabanivka village council of Fastiv district, Kyiv region (signs of inaccurate information for more than UAH 42.4 million in the 2021 declaration, a substantiated conclusion was sent to the NPU);
- a deputy of the Novhorodkivka village council of Kirovohrad region (signs of false information for more than UAH 29.9 million in the declaration for 2022, the NPU initiated criminal proceedings);
- the former head of the First Vinnytsia State Notary Office (signs of false information worth over UAH 9.4 million in the 2021 declaration, the NPU initiated criminal proceedings).
In addition, in September, NACP issued a report on administrative offense under Part 4 of Article 172-6 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses (CAO) (for declaring false information) against an investigator of the Darnytsia Police Department of the Main Department of the NPU in Kyiv, which was sent to the court for consideration.
In September, the NPU completed a pre-trial investigation and sent to court a criminal proceeding with an accusation against the head of a department of the Zolotonosha District State Administration in Cherkasy region (part 1 of Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). In total, 4 criminal proceedings of this category were sent to court in the first 9 months of this year, which were initiated on the basis of full verification of declarations.
In 9 months, 795 full audits were launched, 455 of which were completed, and 340 audits are ongoing.
Out of 455 completed audits, inaccurate information was found (signs of offenses under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 4 of Art. 172-6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), signs of illicit enrichment or unjustified assets, as well as violations of conflicts of interest in 229 declarations or 50.3% of the completed audits, i.e. in every second declaration that was audited.
As of today, over 9 months, NACP has identified UAH 2.5 billion worth of false information, UAH 34.9 million worth of unreasonable assets, and UAH 146.3 million worth of illegal enrichment. Based on the results of full audits, 134 substantiated conclusions under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, 7 substantiated conclusions under Art. 368-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine were submitted to the competent authorities, of which 126 were entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations, and 4 indictments under Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine were submitted to the court.
This indicates that the application of a risk-based approach to the selection of declarations for full verification had a positive impact on the efficiency of the audits.
Of all the completed full audits of declarations, most violations, including signs of illicit enrichment, false information and unreasonable assets, were found in declarations submitted by representatives of
- local self-government bodies - 70, including 43 local councilors, 12 regional councilors; one regional councilor, one city councilor, one district councilor, three deputy mayors and nine other officials;
- representatives of oblast and rayon state administrations - 19, including one head of oblast state administration and one deputy head of oblast state administration, one head of rayon state administration and one deputy head of rayon state administration, two heads of city military administrations and one deputy head of military administration;
- state-owned enterprises - 19, of which 14 are heads of such enterprises;
- customs and tax authorities - nine;
- pre-trial investigation bodies - seven;
- judicial authorities - three, including one judge and two other persons;
- legislative authorities - three MPs;
- central executive authorities - three deputy ministers.
In addition, the facts of declaring false information were confirmed in 61 out of 163 completed verifications of declarations of officials of Kyiv city. Kyiv (37.4%); in 15 out of 34 completed audits of officials of Odesa region (44.1%); in 13 out of 16 completed audits of officials of Cherkasy region (81.2%); in 11 out of 8 completed audits of officials of Vinnytsia region (72.7%); in 8 out of 12 completed audits of officials of Poltava region (66.6%), in 20 out of 30 completed audits of officials of Kyiv region (60.6%).
We remind you that the start of a full inspection does not mean that the declarant has committed a corruption or corruption-related offense. If the audit reveals a violation, NACP takes measures to bring the person to justice in accordance with the law. If there are grounds, the materials are transferred to the pre-trial investigation authorities and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office to consider civil forfeiture of unjustified assets.
The list of persons in respect of whom full audits have been initiated, as well as all the results of the audits, can be found here.
What happens to the declaration after it is submitted? Read here.
