Ukraine will lose support if it violates independence of anticorruption bodies - G7 ambassadors

Ukraine will lose support if it violates independence of anticorruption bodies - G7 ambassadors

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The adoption of legislation that would compromise the independence of anticorruption institutions threatens Ukraine's reform trajectory and the support of the international community, G7 ambassadors have said in a statement published on Twitter.

"The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the EU continue our support for Ukraine's independent anticorruption institutions, and their commitment to fighting corruption at the highest levels. Our commitment is rooted in the demands expressed by the Ukrainian people during the Revolution of Dignity and every day since. Legislation that would compromise the independence of these institutions threatens Ukraine's reform trajectory, and the support of the international community," the diplomats said.

On April 28, the Verkhovna Rada committee on law enforcement activities recommended that bill No. 3133 be adopted at first reading.

The explanatory note to bill No. 3133 introducing amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine on improving the effectiveness of fighting corruption in certain law enforcement and other state bodies states that the reasons for the dismissal of the NABU director enshrined in Part 4 of Article 6 of the law on the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) do not include the one on the entry into force of a court decision to hold the NABU director administratively responsible for corruption-related offenses. This creates inconsistencies in the clauses of the same law.

The document proposes replacing in separate articles of the laws on the state protection of state authorities of Ukraine and officials, on the prosecutor's office, on the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine and on the State Bureau of Investigation the term "corruption offense," which applies to an administrative offense, with the term "corruption-related offense," which would comply with the provisions of the law on preventing corruption.

It is proposed to supplement Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Article 13 of the law on the National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine with a clause according to which restrictions envisaged by this article apply not only to candidates for a post in the NABU but also to NABU employees.

In addition, it is proposed to supplement Paragraph 8 of Part 4 of Article 6 of the said law with a provision according to which one of the grounds for the dismissal of the NABU director is the entry into force of a court decision to hold him or her administratively responsible for corruption-related offenses.

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The bill No. 3133 was registered in parliament by a group of people's deputies headed by European Solidarity faction member Oleksiy Honcharenko.

In December 2019, NABU Director Artem Sytnyk lost an appeal at Rivne Court of Appeal against a ruling of the Sarny Court of Rivne Region, which found Sytnyk guilty of an administrative offense during his rest in Rivne region. After that, Sytnyk was included in the register of corrupt officials of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention.

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