Strengthening cooperation among anti-corruption institutions through Europol tools, developing a robust whistleblower protection system, exchanging best practices for detecting corruption in the public sector, and digitizing public services are the main recommendations of the annual EPAC/EACN* declaration.
In seven years of work, NABU has sent more than 1,000 international legal orders to 80 states. Meanwhile, without cooperation with law enforcement agencies within and outside the country, any investigation is doomed. This was stated by NABU Director Artem Sytnyk at the International Forum on Kleptocracy and Illicit Financial Flows, which is taking place in Kyiv on Dec. 1-2, 2021.
On Nov. 30, 2021, the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) under the procedural guidance of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor`s Office (SAPO) notified the former head of a department of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine of suspicion of embezzling almost UAH 51 million while purchasing equipment for court hearings and videoconferencing. His accomplice, the head of a company that supplied the equipment, has also been prosecuted.
A successful anti-corruption process involves a two-sided approach: public authorities must perform their duties conscientiously, and society must be transparent and fair.
The awareness-raising efforts of the National Bureau have been recognized at the state level as the anti-corruption online game “NABU investigates” has won a contest launched by the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service.