The Council registered a draft law, which, among other things, proposes to introduce additional grounds for the dismissal of the heads of the NABU and NAKC.
disruption of the independent competition for the post of director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and wants to simplify the procedure for his dismissal. The corresponding draft law No. 7654 was registered in the parliament the day before by a member of the “Servant of the People” presidential faction Andriy Klochko.
“The project establishes new requirements for candidates for the directorship of NABU and restrictions on participation in the competition. This means that the competition will have to be canceled and started from scratch immediately after the adoption of the draft law, because the requirements for its participants will change. In this way, Zelenskyi's team will suspend the competition, with the possibility of restarting it at any time,” commented the head of the Anti-Corruption Center Vitaly Shabunin on the legislative proposal.
However, one of the most dubious “innovations” of the draft law is the introduction of a new basis for the early dismissal of the heads of NABU and NAKC, namely ” bringing to administrative responsibility for an offense related to corruption”.
“Under conditions of full control over the law enforcement system, organizing this for Yermak/Tatarov is a matter of one call. Get mad at everything! For part of Zelenskyi's team, the most important thing is the ability to steal with impunity, even during the war,” Shabunin noted and added that the draft law was definitely discussed in the President's Office, but it is not yet known whether Zelenskyi personally approved this idea.
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ZN.UA warned about the possibility of disruption of the upcoming competition for the post of NABU director back in the winter.
After the full-scale Russian invasion, the competition was not started for other reasons, although President Zelensky assured international partners that it would start soon. condition and whether the NABU team will withstand the intervention of “strangers” and why the future head of the SAP is so important for the work of the anti-corruption unit can be read in Inna Vedernykova's interview with the NABU detective “Tests of NABU. Is Zelenskyy ready to open a second front against corruption?“.
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At the same time, he was elected two years after the resignation of Nazar Kholodnytsky from the post of head SAP Oleksandr Klymenko even at the legislative level has such strong protection and can be dismissed as an ordinary prosecutor. As you can read in the material “ Enable SAP. An anti-corruption front is opening in Ukraine”.
