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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already signed a bill that reduces the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO). This was started bt MPs Yaroslav Zheleznyak and Oleksiy Honcharenko. “According to several of my sources, the president has already signed today’s adopted bill No. 12414, which effectively abolishes NABU and SAPO. Game over,” […]

The EU expreses concern over threat to Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms and closely following developments around NABU and SAPO. The independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions is a core condition for continued political and financial support. Any rollback of reforms threatens Ukraine’s European integration path. The European Union has expressed concern over Ukraine’s recent actions regarding NABU and SAPO, and reminded that […]

Today, Ukraine’s Parliament is set to consider Draft Law No. 12414 in its second reading, now with last-minute amendments that, according to official statements by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP), would effectively eliminate their independence and subordinate their work to the Prosecutor General. The key amendments would allow the Prosecutor General to: NABU warns […]

The large-scale attack by nearly all of the country’s law enforcement agencies against NABU can be divided into two distinct parts: a genuine attempt to remove questionable figures from the Bureau, and a broader effort to use this as a pretext for a major discrediting campaign against the entire anti-corruption bloc. Roman Romaniuk and Angelina Strashkulych investigate for Ukrainska Pravda. […]

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement supported amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), according to which the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) could become dependent on the decisions of the Prosecutor General. Currently, these are independent anti-corruption institutions. Ukrainska Pravda was informed by the law enforcement committee, and committee proposals to draft […]

Zelenskyy undermines key Anti-Corruption reforms. With draft law No 12414, Zelenskyy is destroying the key anti-corruption achievements of the Revolution of Dignity and taking us back to the Yanukovych era (at least in terms of justice). Today, the Verkhovna Rada’s law enforcement committee voted for the respective amendments to draft law No 12414. Anastasia Radina, Chairman of the Committee on […]

Mass raids in NABU and SAPO is an orchestrated attempt to discredit and dismantle independent watchdogs that was not out of G7 Ambassadors attention. The ambassadors of G7 countries have voiced serious concern over the launch of investigations targeting several employees of Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU). This was stated in a message posted on social media platform X. “G7 […]

President Zelenskyy is building a corrupt autocracy, where the likes of Chernyshov and Mindich can steal without ending up in prison, and Zelenskyy himself can easily get re-elected. To achieve this, he needs to eliminate critics and whistleblowers (like myself and the Anti-Corruption Action Center), then destroy NABU and SAPO, and curb independent media (I assume they’ll start with Ukrainska […]

Mass raids by security forces targeting NABU and SAP: a coordinated attempt to undermine independent institutions. Anti-Corruption Action center warns. The mass investigative actions by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), and the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) against the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) appear to be a continuation of pressure and an […]