E-declaration follow-up: NABU opens 25 cases

The number of criminal cases being investigated by agents of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) as a follow-up to the recent e-declaration campaign has increased to 25, according to the NABU's press service.

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The NABU has registered three new cases involving representatives of the judicial branch of power, it reported.

Two of them were opened upon providing false information (Article 366-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and the third concerns facts of unlawful enrichment (Article 368-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Read alsoOnyshchenko's "gas schemes": fugitive MP says will testify to NABU via Skype Dec 22"Therefore, a total of 25 criminal proceedings were being investigated by NABU agents as of January 23 as a follow-up to the e-declaration campaign. They relate to activity of 24 people: 14 judges, six Ukrainian MPs, two heads of district administrations, one deputy chairman of the regional council, and one head of a central executive agency," it said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the NABU entered information about the first criminal cases opened after the e-declaration campaign into the state register of pre-trial investigations on November 17, 2016.

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