The National Anti-Corruption Bureau could start working by the end of the year, First Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy has said.
“We could say about the Anti-Corruption Bureau: it would start working this year, this is for sure,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Aug. 29.
He said that under Ukrainian law, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau is to start working from Oct. 1.
“However, we understand that it would not start from October 1. Believe me: a quasi-model could be done quickly – to transfer a part of old prosecutors to the anti-corruption public prosecutor’s office and announce that the reform is conducted. If we want to make a new thing, an alternative one, as the new police, anti-corruption bureau, unfortunately, this required thorough, heavy and continuous work,” he said.
He also said that the parliament is to approve the tender commission to select the anti-corruption prosecutor during the first week of the new session.
Parubiy said that the tender commission would consist of 11 members – seven from parliamentary factions and four from the Public Prosecutor’s Office. He expressed hope that the factions would approve candidates who are famous public figures which the public trust.
Board Chairman of the ‘Anti-Corruption Center’ NGO Vitaliy Shabunin said that NGOs have submitted their proposals to the parliamentary factions on the candidates. Among them is Giovanni Kessler, who was a member of the tender commission to select the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Shabunin believes that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau will be able to start working in the middle of December at best.
