The incumbent president of Ukraine is not in the jurisdiction of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Bureau has no powers to begin a pre-trial investigation against him, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said in a statement posted on Facebook on Monday.
“In response to numerous media inquiries as to whether the National Anti-Corruption Bureau will investigate the [facts] mentioned in the materials on the ‘Panama offshores’, we report the following. In accordance with the Ukrainian law on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Code of Criminal Procedure, Bureau jurisdiction applies to top officials authorized to fulfill the functions of the state or local self-government, in particular, the president of Ukraine whose powers have ended,” the report says.
