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Yatseniuk urges Parliament to broaden powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau
15.05.2015 10:14 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
On Thurs, May 14, the Ukrainian Cabinet meeting considered a number of issues regarding the national anti-corruption policy, in particular the activities of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the extension of its powers, Government Portal reports referring to the Ukrainian
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk.
«Today the Government is taking a number of decisions, the purpose of which is the actual start of the activity of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and allowing it to perform its functions: to investigate, to fight corruption in the country from the corruption in the highest echelons of the authorities to domestic corruption, including at the level of tax service inspectors, custom’s inspectors and other public authorities,» the Ukrainian PM said.
As to the report, the Government meeting was attended also by the Head of the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau Artem Sytnyk.
Reportedly, Yatseniuk appealed to the Parliament to broaden the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, and «to give an opportunity to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to conduct an investigation against officials if they had deliberately submitted false information in tax return».
«Now we introduce criminal liability for submitting false data as well as we give the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to conduct an investigation regarding each state employees who submit false information in their tax returns,» Yatseniuk said.
He also noted that there have been already revealed «so many facts» of inconsistency of tax return of officials « to real property owned by these officials directly or indirectly.»
«This is our common fight against corruption and it is our part of the obligations first of all to the Ukrainians and to our foreign creditors. I hope that the Parliament promptly passes appropriate laws and allows the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to conduct an investigation in relation to officials who falsely report the property or report not all property which belong to them on the basis of the right of ownership or on the right of use,» Yatseniuk stressed.
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