The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has established the procedures for appointing and dismissing the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
On Feb. 12, the parliament adopted the law on making amendments to the laws on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the National Agency of Ukraine for Battling Corruption with 247 MPs voting in favor.
According to the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Yuriy Lutsenko, the President will appoint the Director of Anti-Corruption Bureau by choosing from three candidates selected by the contest commission.
Both parliament and the president make the decision to remove the Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, if there are grounds to do so.
As reported, on Feb. 3, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the bill on making amendments to the laws on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the National Agency of Ukraine on Battling Corruption at first reading.
Previously, Chairman of the parliamentary committee on Organized Crime Control and Anti-Corruption Yehor Sobolev said that 243 amendments had been considered and 64 were taken into account while preparing the bill for second reading.
“We made the procedure of appointing a director very rigorous, and firing [a director] – very difficult… He [a director] can be removed [from the position] only if a special independent audit establishes that the bureau’s actions are inefficient. Only in case of mutual agreement by the president and the parliament,” Sobolev said.
A total of 161 candidates have applied for the position of Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
