The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) was the first link in the chain of anti-corruption infrastructure after the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. Established in 2015, the role of NABU was to investigate cases of top corruption. For a...
Compared to other Ukrainian courts, the Kyiv District Administrative Court (KDAC) led by judge Pavlo Vovk quite often makes headlines with its scandalous decisions. These are only a few examples of such judgments: In November 2013, the...
Ukraine finds itself between a rock and a hard place after a decision of its Constitutional Court killed the country’s asset declaration system and gutted the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK), a pillar of its...
The creation of the new anti-corruption institutions in the country started in 2015. Amongst the first was the Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) responsible for investigating cases categorized as top-level corruption, the Specialized...
This is by no means the first scandal involving this court’s participation. However, due to machinations and likely cover-ups by key state figures and institutions, the court has managed to stay afloat. After the recent scandal, various...
The Polish prosecutor’s office said the detention was the result of an international investigation conducted by a joint group of prosecutors from Poland and Ukraine, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau of Poland and the National...
On December 11 Ukrainian society was hit by the news of Roman Nasirov, ex-head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, being reinstated at his position. Nasirov is suspected in causing UAH 2 bn ($73.7mn) of damage to the state. He is a...
The launch of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) is a huge step forward for Ukraine. The country’s civil society has been fighting for this for more than two years. First and foremost, the creation of the court offers the...
The fight for its creation was not easy. President Petro Poroshenko, the author of Ukraine’s judicial reform, resisted the idea till the very last moment. The pressure of society and Ukraine’s western partners made him change his mind....
According to the last poll by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Ukrainians consider corruption the number one problem obstructing the country’s development, even more than the war in Donbas. Corruption scares away...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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