About 70 deputies from the party "Servant of the People" may not support the Presidential Bill on the return of independence to the National Anti -Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). It is reported by Financial Times with reference to sources inside the faction.
The reason for this resistance was not just a political disagreement, but the real fears of some people's deputies that anti -corruption bodies may take revenge on them for their preliminary support for the scandalous version of the law that actually subordinated the NABU to the Prosecutor General's Office.
These fears intensified after the public statement of the head of the Specialized Anti -Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) Alexander Klimenko. In an interview with the public broadcaster, he emphasized that his department conducts a thorough analysis of all the circumstances of the preliminary law - up to the "second chronology". According to him, not only events, but also statements, accusations and pressure on anti -corruption bodies will be studied.
This caused panic among individual deputies. One of the heads of the "Servant of the People" faction in a comment by FT stated that "people are afraid that they will be unfairly persecuted as an act of revenge." Some are so tuned against the bill that, according to sources, they are ready to even make mandates.
Instead, Klimenko stressed in a comment to FT that SAP and NABU were not engaged in political persecution. According to him, "only those who are involved in corruption schemes have grounds."
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk reported that the new bill will be considered on July 31. However, according to Financial Times , voting can be postponed or held at the internal conflict in the "servant of the people" faction at the time when there will be insufficient number of deputies in the session hall.
