The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) issued a statement in which it called on the Verkhovna Rada not to hide information about persons who committed corruption crimes.
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The corresponding statement was published today, September 5, on the NAPC website.
The NAPC believes that yesterday, September 4, the Parliamentary Law Enforcement Committee stepped back in the anti-corruption reform, supporting a number of controversial norms in the draft law No. to the responsibility of persons authorized to perform the functions of the state or local self-government”.
Some amendments to the draft law were made bypassing the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy and the draft law on amending certain laws of Ukraine on determining the procedure for submitting declarations of persons authorized to perform the functions of the state or local self-government under martial law (No. 9534), – they note in the department.
Thus, the NAPC believes that the changes proposed by the deputies to Art. 59 of the Law “On the Prevention of Corruption” actually destroys the Unified State Register of Persons Who Have Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offenses.
This bill plans not to include in the Register information about persons brought to disciplinary responsibility for committing corruption or corruption-related offenses, as well as deleting most of the already available information about persons held accountable for committing corruption or corruption-related offences. offences, according to the department.
According to the NACP, such changes will lead to the fact that special checks of heads in the civil service and local governments, provided for by the law “On the Prevention of Corruption” in terms of checking whether a person is held accountable for committing corruption and corruption-related offenses, will become a fiction.
Also, the NAPC notes that the amendment to Art. 366-2 of the Criminal Code will actually eliminate the possibility of criminal liability for lying in declarations on leased property.
The proposed amendment provides that if the employee fails to declare the leased property, then only the amount that the declarant must pay for the lease of such property will be taken into account when determining the punishment. If the declarant indicates that he used the apartment for free or underestimates its value, then he avoids criminal liability, the NAPC notes.
In addition, the department believes that the amendments to Art. 39 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and Art. 59 of the Law “On the Prevention of Corruption” give rise to grounds for non-inclusion in the Unified State Register of persons who have committed corruption or corruption-related offenses for false declaration.
The NAPC notes that the submission of knowingly false information in the declaration is a significant administrative offense, therefore, the proposed changes to the draft law No. 9587-D are unacceptable for the following reasons:
- create a basis for leaving a person in office in cases where such a person is subject to dismissal;
- create conditions for the appointment to the service of a person in cases where such a person cannot apply for public service positions;
- create conditions for non-inclusion of such persons in the Register.
Neither the President, nor the Prime Minister, nor other leaders in the event of such changes will be able to prevent the appointment of a person involved in corrupt practices, the NAPC notes and adds that 89% of Ukrainian citizens consider corruption to be the second biggest problem after the war.
Source: Racurs
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