{"id":48700,"date":"2016-02-01T17:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=39868"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:04:09","slug":"39868-perevirka-deklaratsij","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/39868-perevirka-deklaratsij","title":{"rendered":"Anti-corruption NGOs announce setting up a coalition to check officials\u2019 declarations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyiv, February 1, 2016.<\/strong> <\/em>Anti-corruption non-governmental organizations announced setting up a coalition to check Ukrainian officials\u2019 financial declarations. The NGOs made this announcement at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center, signing the corresponding memorandum on cooperation. \u201cProcessing declarations is one of the key priorities of our NGOs for this year. We will inspect government officials\u2019 declarations of property, looking for evidence of corruption and discrepancies between their declared and actual property,\u201d informed Oleksandra\u00a0Drik, President of the NGO Civic Lustration\u00a0Committee. According to her, public opinion in a recent survey was that NGOs are to become the main corruption fighters. At the same time, inspection of declarations of property is a powerful anti-corruption instrument, envisaged by lustration and anti-corruption legislation, said Drik. Nevertheless, activists believe that establishment of National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) is being intentionally delayed. \u201cCorruption in the government bodies will come to light as soon as this agency becomes operational\u201d added Ms Drik.<\/p>\n

Dmytro Chaplynskyi, main developer of \u201cKantseliarska Sotnia\u201d (\u201cThe Clerical Hundred\u201d) project, reminded that there is a civic register of declarations containing over 18 thousand declarations of top officials at present. They were digitized and published. According to him, this information is used for analytics and investigations, resulting in dismissals. Activists did a huge amount of work, so launching an electronic declaration system is extremely important, said Chaplynskyi. \u201cIf this new system is launched, we expect it to handle 500 \u2013 800 declarations per year,\u201d he predicted. Oleksii Khmara, executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, explained that the data from the civic register of declarations \u201care easily accessible and comparable with other open databases and registers. The possibility to compare one declaration with another is the most important, as this database of declarations works on a data collection basis,\u201d stated Khmara.\u00a0 At the same time, comparing these declarations with open registers (real estate register, vehicles register, businesses register etc) is important. Moreover, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine said that from the beginning of this year the punishment for declaring false information will be two years in prison.<\/p>\n

According to Tetiana Semiletko, Director of the NGO Media Law Institute, the coalition on inspection of declarations will be paying special attention to the access to declarations, making sure they are public, as well as content analysis and monitoring of the officials\u2019 lifestyles. This means public activists will check \u201cwhether officials might conceal property, both their own and their relatives\u2019, or obtain excessively expensive presents, prizes and profits, being a frequent practice, [\u2026] or, judges coming into inheritance of millions,\u201d said Semiletko. Moreover, activists will be looking for gaps in the current legislation and respond efficiently. \u201cThese measures will allow increasing financial commitment and accountability of Ukrainian officials, cleansing the authorities from dishonest officials and providing efficient cooperation between the public and the corresponding anti-corruption agencies,\u201d said Semiletko.<\/p>\n

Viktor Taran, Head of the NGO Center for Political Studies and Analysis reminded that formation of electronic declarations has been postponed due to a certain amendment made in a draft law. \u201cThough the President and the government promised to bring in a draft law to eliminate this case, neither the Cabinet of Ministers nor the Presidential Administration managed to file in the corresponding draft laws in over a month. We believe it means the authorities are willfully doing their best to sabotage electronic declaration this year,\u201d said Taran.<\/p>\n

In general, the new coalition aims at exerting public control over publication of declarations of property in official websites, as well as public analysis, supporting NAPC establishment and operation, developing resource and educational materials in order to involve the public in detecting corrupt officials, summarized Oleksandr Liemienov, co-founder of the NGO Center for Local Self-Government, manager of anti-corruption at the Reanimation Package of Reforms. \u201cOur team is facing a simple, but important task \u2013\u00a0 to make it impossible for people found out in a property fraud to remain in their positions within a year,\u201d said Iegor Sobolev, MP from Samopomich party, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Preventing and Combating Corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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