WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\nTurns out that in fact only UAH 3,8 billion were returned to budget out of UAH 9,6 billion Prosecutor General\u2019s Office of Ukraine claims to have returned to the state or to the citizens through court action in 2016. The difference in figures is caused by a specific calculation methodology Prosecutor General\u2019s Office uses, concluded activists of the NGO \u201cNashi Hroshi\u201d. They examined 5600 court decisions and additional documents provided by the Prosecutor\u2019s General Office to Ukrainian MP Victor Chumak, following his official request. \u201cOur aim was to clarify, what Prosecutor General\u2019s Office means by \u2018money was returned\u2019. [\u2026] First, we made calculations in the same way as the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office did, and then started to check facts. We included into the list of the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office\u2019s achievements every case where there were grounds for this, even if these grounds were questionable. However, even with this favorable approach, the final figure we have got is only UAH 3,8 billion instead of 10 billion,\u201d said Oleksii Shalaiskyi, editor of \u201cNashi Hroshi\u201d, presenting results of their analysis at Ukraine Crisis Media Center.<\/p>\n
Among these court decisions the activists found a lot of cases which, in their opinion, cannot be considered as those bringing benefit for the state. The first type of such cases are cases where Prosecutor General\u2019s Office counts the assessed value of property returned to state from lease as \u201creturned money\u201d; sometimes this includes normative evaluation of land plots. The second type are cases where court decisions deal with fines and debts of state enterprises: de facto<\/em> the money is moved from one \u201cpocket\u201d of the state into another. The most remarkable case of this kind is litigation between \u201cNaftogaz\u201d and \u201cKyivenergo\u201d. Other types of cases on this list are litigations between the state and a state\/communal enterprise or a municipal authority for the right to use a land plot or premises. There was even a case related to non-paid student\u2019s scholarship, the Prosecutor\u2019s Office mentions this court decision in favor of student as their achievement.<\/p>\nMoreover, in many of these cases participation of the Prosecutor\u2019s Office in the litigation was in fact unnecessary, Shalaiskyi noted. According to him, it looks as \u201ca conscious attempt to ensure benefits for the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office\u201d. \u201cIt is important to mention that the Prosecutor\u2019s Office has a special guideline prescribing how to calculate losses or benefits for the state. And this methodology actually aims to \u2018puff up\u2019 significant amount of money in situations where this money does not exist at all; the bizarre practice of adding normative monetary evaluation of land into this amount is also prescribed in the guideline,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Victor Chumak emphasized that all these court decisions were given to him in printed copies. Moreover, among them there is a number of decisions which were cancelled several months later, a number of decisions from 2012 and repeated copies of the same decisions. Some of them seem to be even drafts, as there are prosecutor\u2019s notes in pencil.<\/p>\n
In this pool of court decisions there are no criminal cases as a result of which illegal assets were returned to the state. \u201cAs we can see, the Prosecutor\u2019s General Office has no normal methodology for reporting about the returned assets. This performance with piles of paper is just a PR-show. There are no cases about returned illegal assets. [\u2026] If these papers were analyzed by our organization, we would use another methodology and we would say that the total amount of returned money is zero, because we would take into account only cases with court decisions about confiscation of assets,\u201d concluded Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of Anticorruption Action Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cProsecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko is not the one to blame for these defects of the system \u2013 it has been effective long before him. [\u2026] But in order to move forward, Prosecutor General needs to know what the Prosecutor\u2019s Office has, and it has no normal database,\u201d Oleksiy Shalaiskyi said. He added that the activist are open for professional discussion with the prosecutors about every of the cases mentioned above.<\/p>\n
According to the activists, there will hardly be any improvement with the system without united register of distrained and seized property. The launch of the register is within the mandate of the Agency on Assets Research and Management. \u00a0\u201cWe are waiting for the register to be launched this year,\u201d Kaleniuk stressed.<\/p>\n
Daria Kaleniuk also made a critical comment about the statement of Yuriy Lutsenko that Ukraine is going to return UAH 50 billion, or nearly USD 1,5 billion supposedly illegally withdrawn from the country during the years of Yanukovych presidency, and that he will consider to make details of the case classified as a highly sensitive information. \u201cWhat is the strangest in this story, no one knows where these USD 1,5 billion come from, where these offshore companies took money to buy these obligations and who are beneficiary owners of these companies. (\u2026) There is a very serious risk that the companies involved will take court action and Ukraine will have to give this money back to Yanukovych. In my opinion, this is not a victory, in contrary, this is a way to legalize assets of Yanoukovich\u2019s companions,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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