The Verkhovna Rada approved a resonant bill, which significantly limits the ability to monitor the lifestyle of officials - in particular after their dismissal. The initiator was the people's deputies from the faction of the "servant of the people".
The new law stipulates that the agency will be able to check the declarations only during the period of stay in office. All information about property, expenses, income or services received after dismissal falls out of view of anti -corruption bodies.
In fact, this blocks one of the main tools for detecting illegal enrichment, - comments the decision by the expert of the anti -corruption sphere. - Earlier, the NACC could find out how the official suddenly became the owner of elite real estate after his release. Now - no.
In addition to the restriction of monitoring, the law also raises the financial threshold, after which criminal and not administrative liability - up to UAH 2.27 million is inaccurate for a false declaration. This can significantly reduce the number of cases being investigated.
Another key norm: from now on the National Anti -Corruption Bureau will only be able to investigate cases where the amount of possible abuse exceeds 2000 subsistence minimums (ie more than UAH 5 million). Less large -scale cases will be transferred to the DBR - a structure that experts have repeatedly criticized for political dependence.
Anti -corruption organizations have already stated that the changes made threaten the efficiency of the electronic declaration system.
“It's a direct step back in combating corruption. All officials who have hidden assets through relatives or "random buyers" can now wait for the release and legalize their property without the risk of inspections, ”one of the public sector representatives said.
