Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has confirmed that information in Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's e-declarations for 2015 and 2016 is accurate.
Agents of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) have detained a former deputy head of the Special Economic Crime Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) of Ukraine on suspicion of embezzlement and asset declaration fraud, according to NABU's press service.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says the introduction of mandatory e-declaration for senior officials and civil servants of all levels was a positive step, as it allowed the public to not only see the assets of the declarants but also verify their origin, the president's press service reported.
Twenty Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on Kyiv to cancel e-declaration for public activists who are engaged in countering corruption, according to a letter addressed to Ukrainian president, prime minister and speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Human Rights Information Center reports.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko received UAH 413,296, or about US$15,300, in annual salary in 2016, according to his 2016 e-declaration, published on the website of the state register of assets declarations.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has enacted the No. 6172 law on amendments to Article 3 of the Ukrainian Law on Prevention of Corruption, introducing e-declaration for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), while relieving army officers of this duty.