In its short history, the court has both achievements and failures.
two and a half times more verdicts in corruption cases than all other courts combined in the first four years of the existence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. About this in the material for ZN.UA “VAKS. A trigger for Putin and the future for Ukraine” writes Vadym Valko, a lawyer of the public organization “Center for Anti-Corruption”. . Among them, 67 were incriminating, nine were acquittals, and five more overturned the decisions of previous courts after the decision of the Constitutional Court to abolish criminal liability for false declarations.
In general, VAKS became systematic to punish corrupt officials, and among the convicted are prosecutors, SBU officers, judges, heads of state enterprises and officials of various levels. by decisions, canceled two verdicts against judges whom VAKS had sent to prison. It is obvious that this is only the beginning of a long way of real cleansing of the state system from corruption. On which VAKS already has its achievements and failures, as well as challenges that await it in the future,” the author notes.
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We would like to remind you that the Higher Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine started its work on September 5, 2019. Its judges are appointed exclusively on the basis of the results of an open competition with the participation of international experts.
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