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The parliamentary committee for preventing and fighting corruption has failed to hold a meeting due to the absence of quorum.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that 11 out of 22 committee members came to the meeting. The agenda included the preparation of draft law No. 3040 on the national agency for detecting and managing assets recovered from corruption and other crimes for second reading.

Committee members, representatives of the Ukrainian government and public activists discussed some remarks, although the committee failed to make the decision and plans to hold the meeting early on Tuesday, before the plenary session of the parliament.

“Doubts of lawmakers have been removed. Two important issues regarding the procedure for selling property and the defining of property have been agreed, taking into account Ukrainian law – Article 100 of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine,” First Deputy Justice Minister of Ukraine Natalia Sevostianova told reporters after the discussion.

She said that the national agency will be able to sell the seized assets mentioned in Article 100 of the Criminal Procedural Code.

Earlier the parliament sent the draft law on the national agency for detecting and managing assets recovered from corruption and other crimes for repeated second reading.