In recent years, the Ukrainian parliament has lost the ability to effectively control the work of the country's law enforcement agencies, which is becoming a serious problem, political scientist Ihor Reiterovych notes.
"Parliament had no control over these bodies. That is, yes - according to the law, he has it, he can exercise parliamentary control, summon and ask questions, and even make personnel decisions, but in reality today the parliament has no influence on these bodies. Since their activities are largely coordinated by the OP, partly by the CMU, they are extremely careless about their duties to come and report to the People's Deputies," the expert said.
At the same time, he noted that the People's Deputies cannot formulate their demand in such a way as to force the heads of law enforcement agencies to come to the Council and report.
"Because of a certain fragmentation and lack of political will. Because we understand that if they had decided on it, the monomajority could at least summon them without any problems, if they had asked the question harshly. But they don't ask questions harshly, because they understand that they won't get the answers they expect," Reiterovych believes.
Last week, NABU director Semyon Krivonos refused to attend a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada's anti-corruption policy committee to be heard about the progress of the investigation into the leak of information from NABU. The head of the anti-corruption committee, Anastasia Radina, believes that the NABU director's refusal to come to the committee may be related to the release of a new journalistic investigation into possible information leaks with the direct participation of Krivonos.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine is "known" for its ability to loudly announce the exposure of another scheme and to announce the suspicion of a top official. However, these cases often fall apart in court or do not even get there.
A clear example is the criminal proceedings against the former Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan. Both cases collapsed in the courts. However, NABU did not officially apologize to the ex-minister for illegal criminal prosecution and damage to business reputation.
Another of the recent "high-profile" cases of NABU, about which more and more questions arise, is the criminal proceedings against the already former Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solskyi.
The case of anti-corruption officials concerns a dispute over land plots in the Sumy region, however, as it turned out, neither he nor affiliated persons have the incriminated land. The law enforcement officers did not specify what exactly the ex-minister took possession of in this case. In addition, the detectives tried to "spill" the examination, which they themselves ordered and which, apparently, was supposed to testify to Solsky's innocence. However, loud statements have already caused the breakdown of negotiations with the Poles.
