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 […]
On December 12, 2019 detectives of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine notified five people of suspicion in murdering Pavlo Sheremet, a Russian reporter of Belarus origin. Sheremet lived in Kyiv, worked on the “Vesti” radio station belonging to Oleksandr Klymenko, the Minister of Revenues and […]
On December 16, 2019 Oleksandr Fedorovych Novikov was selected as a new Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention. Novikov is the prosecutor of the First Division of Procedural Control Over Pre-Trial Investigation and Support of Public Prosecution of the Office of the Oversight of Law Compliance by Agencies […]
On Friday 13, 2019 the Rivne Oblast Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal by the Director of the NABU Artem Sytnyk and upheld the ruling of the Sarny District Court of Rivne Region of September 6, 2019, according to which Sytnyk had been found guilty of committing administrative offence under […]