The Anticorruption Action Centre’s (AntAC) head, Vitaliy Shabunin, addressed the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) allegations of document forgery and military service evasion in an exclusive interview with NV on March 9.
On the tenth anniversary of the pro-Western EuroMaidan Revolution, the Ukrainian parliament approved the first reading of a bill that effectively destroys one of the key tools of the ongoing judicial reform, the Public Integrity Council. The bill seeks to subordinate the watchdog to the High Qualification Commission, a judicial governing body, and make it effectively impossible for the council to assess judges’ integrity. The move to destroy the Public Integrity Council highlights the state in which judicial reform is 10 years after the start of the EuroMaidan Revolution, commemorated on Nov. 21.
Ukraine’s SBU security service is reportedly preparing to submit proposals to the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to impose sanctions on several high-profile close associates of runaway former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, NV has reported, citing sources.
Despite the imposition of restrictions on close associates of runaway former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych by the United States, Ukraine has yet to follow suit, as the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has not imposed sanctions on a dozen contentious politicians from the Yanukovych era.
Some 78% of Ukrainian citizens believe that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is directly responsible for corruption within the government and military administrations, according to a July 2023 survey conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation in partnership with the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).