The prosecutor general of Ukraine heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General. In 1991 the post was inherited from the socialist law state. The term of authority of the prosecutor is six years. The prosecutor general is appointed and dismissed by the president with parliamentary consent. Parliament can force the prosecutor general to resign after a vote of no-confidence.
Sławomir Ryszard Nowak is a Polish politician and a state official in Ukraine. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 9,061 votes in 25 Gdańsk district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
The Group of States against Corruption, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body with its Headquarters in Strasbourg (France), was established, in 1999, as an enlarged Partial Agreement by 17 Council of Europe member States.
Corruption is widespread in Ukrainian society. In 2012 Ernst & Young put Ukraine among the three most-corrupt nations from 43 surveyed, alongside Colombia and Brazil. In 2015 The Guardian called Ukraine "the most corrupt nation in Europe". According to a poll conducted by Ernst & Young in 2017, experts considered Ukraine to be the ninth-most corrupt nation from 53 surveyed. According to Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index,, Ukraine ranked 122nd out of 180 countries in 2021, the second most corrupt in Europe, with Russia the most at 136.
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine or NABU is a Ukrainian law enforcement anti-corruption agency which investigates corruption in Ukraine and prepares cases for prosecution. It has investigatory powers but cannot indict suspects. Only agency findings passed to the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office become a part of criminal case.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine is the main healthcare body in the system of central government of Ukraine. It is based on former Ministries of Healthcare.
Accounting Chamber is an audit body of the Verkhovna Rada and the supreme audit institution of Ukraine. The chamber's main purpose is to provide a control over use of funds of the State Budget of Ukraine. Role of the chamber in the Soviet times was performed by the Workers-Peasants Inspection of the USSR.
Oleksandr Danylyuk is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (2019), the Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2016-2018). Danylyuk is a co-founder and the Head of the Center for National Resilience and Development.
Roman Mykhailovych Nasirov is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. He was temporarily relieved of his duties on 3 March 2017 and although he was reinstated in his function by a court decision late 2018 he did not return as head of the State Fiscal Service.
Corruption in Azerbaijan is considered high and occurs at all levels of government. In Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, which ranked 180 countries from those perceived to be least corrupt to those perceived to be very corrupt, Azerbaijan was ranked 128, compared to 45 for Georgia and 58 for Armenia. In the Azerbaijani laundromat money-laundering scheme, $2.9 billion was paid to foreign politicians and Azerbaijani elites by companies linked to Azerbaijani ruler Ilham Aliyev, government ministries, and the International Bank of Azerbaijan between 2012 and 2014. Azerbaijan is a member of Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) and OECD's Anti-Corruption Network.
The Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office or SAPO is an independent structural unit of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine, and is primarily responsible for supporting and overseeing criminal investigations launched by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
The European Union Anti-Corruption Initiative, EUACI, is the largest program of technical assistance in fighting corruption in Ukraine implemented by the European Union.
European Union Advisory Mission Ukraine is a civilian Common Security & Defence Policy (CSDP) mission of the European Union. It aims to assist Ukrainian authorities to reform civilian security sector. It provides strategic advice and practical support to make Ukrainian civilian security sector more effective, efficient, transparent and enjoying public trust. EUAM Ukraine works with a number of law enforcement and rule of law institutions of Ukraine, and it formally began operation on December 1, 2014, following Ukrainian Government's request.
Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova is a Ukrainian politician, academic, and lawyer, previously a prosecutor general of Ukraine from March 2020 to July 2022. She was the first woman to hold the office and was suspended on 17 July 2022 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On 19 July, Venediktova was dismissed following a voting in the Verkhovna Rada, which was tabled by Zelenskyy, and pointing to the presence of personnel collaborating with occupying Russian forces within her agency.
Ruslan Heorhiiovych Riaboshapka is a Ukrainian jurist who was the Prosecutor General of Ukraine from August 2019 to March 2020.
As of July 2021, there is an ongoing constitutional crisis in Ukraine since 27 October 2020, when the Constitutional Court of Ukraine invalidated much of Ukraine's 2014 anti-corruption reform as unconstitutional.
Civil Oversight Council of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine is an independent civil institution, formed according to the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine Act to ensure the Bureau's transparency, to set public control of its work, and to strengthen its public communications.
Oleksiy Yuriyovych Symonenko is a Ukrainian lawyer and investigator. Symonenko was an officer in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) from 2010 to 2019. During this time his investigative team laid criminal charges against former Ukrainian prime ministers Yulia Tymoshenko and Pavlo Lazarenko. Symonenko was deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 27 March 2020 to 17 July 2022. In December 2020, Symonenko transferred a case of bribery charges against Oleh Tatarov, deputy chief of staff of president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) to the SBU and supervised the case. Symonenko and nine other legal officers participating in the Tatarov case attended Tatarov's birthday party in September 2021. The case was closed in December 2021.
Oleksandr Klymenko is a Ukrainian detective. He has been head of the Ukrainian Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) since 28 July 2022. Klymenko worked for five years at the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), participating in investigations including those of Roman Nasirov and Oleksandr Onyshchenko. He was announced on 19 July 2022 as the winner of the head of SAPO competition, held in 2021, prior to his appointment to the position.
Andriy Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. As of 2022, he is a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, since he was elected to it 2019. Kostin was a candidate in the 2021 competition to become the new head of the Ukrainian Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO). Civil society organisations Transparency International Ukraine, Automaidan, Anti-Corruption Action Center and Dejure stated that Kostin did not satisfy the integrity criteria of the competition. Kostin was not selected. Kostin was the Head of the Verkhovna Rada Legal Policy Committee for two years, from 2020 to 2022. On 27 July 2022, Kostin was voted by the Verkhovna Rada as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
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