The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) will strengthen cooperation with the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The NABU Director Artem Sytnyk and the executives of the ICAC agreed on this when the Bureau visited Hong Kong.
On April 12, 2017, the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under the procedural guidance of the anti-corruption prosecutors detained a former Deputy Director of the State Enterprise (SE) State Research and Information Center for Monitoring International Commodity Markets (hereafter – Derzhzovnishinform). He is suspected of committing crimes under Part 5 Article 191 (Misappropriation, embezzlement or conversion of property by abuse of official post) and Part 2 Article 366 (Forgery in office) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
As of March 31, 2017, the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) are investigating 319 criminal proceedings. The damage caused to the State exceeds 85 billion UAH.
The statements of some Members of Parliament (MPs) that the detention of the Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (SFS) has damaged state economy are as meaningless as the previous statements of the representatives of the same political power, that the investigation of corruption in state enterprises blocs their privatization process. We emphasize that all NABU activities are aimed at the liquidation of illegal corruption schemes and reduction of corruption burden on the economy of the State and on Ukrainian citizens.
The Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under the procedural guidance of the anti-corruption prosecutors finished the pre-trial investigation as of the Ex-deputy Prosecutor of the Prosecutor`s Office of Kyiv Region and 2 other persons on suspicion of the embezzlement of sugar stored at the State Special Budgetary Institution Agrarian Fund in Cherkasy region. On March 17, 2017, the suspects and the defense were provided with access to the documents of the pre-trial investigation.