Officials suspected of corruption will not be able to continue working at Kyiv City State Administration, the administration's first deputy head, Oleksandr Popov, has said.
"Law enforcement agencies have a certain set of documents with respect to individual officials, and I think they will report this soon," he said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.
"I cannot and have no powers to consider carefully these documents and how serious the documents of the SBU, the Interior Ministry or the Prosecutor General’s Office are. But I assure you that no official suspected of corruption will work at Kyiv City State Administration," Popov said.
He said that the current Ukrainian authorities were planning to strengthen the fight against corruption at Kyiv City State Administration.
"I cannot name specific terms, but everybody will appreciate very soon that the president and the Cabinet of Ministers have strong political will in terms of bringing order and combating corruption. And the city administration will work in this area with law enforcement agencies side by side," he said.
"I think that the mayor’s team will be expanded and restructured. How? You’ll see this soon. Then we’ll draw up a strategy of our interaction – a clear systematic approach with the understanding of what result we should produce, and when," Popov said.
