Cabinet Drafts Bill to Sack Sytnyk
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has drafted a bill on the National Anticorruption Bureau seeking to dismiss the sitting NABU director Artem Sytnyk officially listed as a corrupt official
This is according to a Facebook post by Minister of Justice Denys Malyuska as reported by DS.
According to him, the new bill seeks to confer the status of executive body on NABU and introduces a new procedure of appointment for its director.
Furthermore, a separate provision of the bill proposes that pending selection of the new director the first deputy director of NABU will be serving as acting director.
Malyuska also added that resolving the situation around the appointment of the NABU director is a conditionality of continued cooperation with the International Monetary Fund.
Just as a reminder, the head of the Anticorruption Centre NGO, aka ANTAC, Vitaliy Shabunin stated earlier that the Cabinet of Ministers was backing a bill, which would allow Artem Sytnyk to be dismissed from his post as NABU director.
Artem Sytnyk was earlier found guilty of corruption by court and listed in the official register of corrupt officials of the National Corruption Prevention Agency.