The Verkhovna Rada plans to register a bill on the creation of a Special Economic Prosecutor's Office, which will take over procedural leadership in cases investigated by the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB). This was announced by Yaroslav Zheleznyak, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Tax Policy.
It is noted that the Special Economic Prosecutor's Office (SEP) could become an analogue of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP). The initiators propose to reboot the Bureau of Economic Security and make it an analogue of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), but for the investigation of economic crimes.
Yaroslav Zheleznyak noted that the reboot of the BEB could increase the efficiency of this body, but at the same time he expressed indignation at the insufficient role of the prosecutor's office in protecting business. His opinion is that the irresponsibility and incompetence of the prosecutors who manage the BEB criminal proceedings leads to violations in the work of the body.
The draft law on this will be titled "On Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, the Criminal Code of Ukraine and other laws of Ukraine regarding the introduction of the activities of the Specialized Economic Prosecutor's Office.".
