Groysman: Criminal responsibility for illegal enrichment must be reintroduced
Ukrinform
Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has stated that criminal responsibility for illegal enrichment must be reintroduced in Ukraine.
"We created the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, we experienced lustration, electronic declarations of officials, created the Anti-Corruption Court and there was penalty for illegal enrichment. Why destroy it? We have already created all this and registered it, now we need to live with it. I support its [criminal responsibility] reintroduction,” said Groysman in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
As reported, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, in the case of the constitutional proposal submitted by 59 Ukrainian MPs, declared unconstitutional article 368-2 of the Criminal Code on illegal enrichment, since its provisions do not comply with the principles of the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.