On April 16, 2020 freedom-loving people of Ukraine and the whole progressive humankind will be celebrating a memorable event of the recent history—a fifth anniversary of appointing Artem Sergiyovych Sytnyk a Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. In these five years, Ukraine earned a reputation of one of […]
Investigations
Four years ago, on February 7, 2016, a patrol police officer Serhiy Oliynyk shot dead a minor Mykhailo Medvediev with a service gun in Kyiv. Medvediev’s only “fault” was that he was a passenger in a car whose driver committed an administrative offence. Enraged polizeien embarked on a real manhunt, […]
A conflict flares up between Iryna Venediktova, the Acting Director of the State Bureau of Investigations, and David Arakhamia, the Head of the Faction of the political party “Servant of the People” in Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The scandal became public on January 20, 2020, after Arakhamia argued on the […]
Unfounded turned out to be the fears that Iryna Venediktova, a new head of the State Bureau of Investigations, will not be able to cope with her official duties, as she has never in her life dealt with criminal procedure and has no idea about how pre-trial investigation agencies function. […]
In late 2019, within four days from December 13 to December 16, Ukrainian courts put a legal end to the “fight against corruption,” which U.S. Embassy had launched in Ukraine 5 years ago. First, on December 13, 2019 the Rivne Oblast Court of Appeals finally found Artem Sytnyk, the Head […]
Artem Sytnyk, the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, has been officially recognized a corrupt person and added to the Unified State Register of Persons Who Have Committed Corruption or Corruption-Related Offences. The basis for adding Sytnyk to the corrupt persons register is order 572/2133/19 of the Sarny […]