Over Hr 100 million has been returned to accounts of state-run companies thanks to operations of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Bureau Director Artem Sytnyk has said.
The NABU press service reported on Nov. 10 that Sytnyk met diplomats and told them that 200 NABU detectives are investigating into more than 215 criminal cases and 36 cases are waiting for court hearings.
He said that judges are not in a hurry to pass sentences.
“In spring the Bureau sent a case against an officer of Prosecutor General’s Office who tried to get a job at NABU using a bribe. Six months has passed and there is no sentence in this uncompleted case,” Sytnyk said.
He recalled that ‘hot imprisonment’ which society is waiting for is the work of not only NABU, but the effective work of the whole law-enforcement system. The creation of the higher anti-corruption court is important. The court along with NABU and Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) would create a full-featured vertical to combat corruption in upper echelons.
Sytnyk at the meeting thanked international partners for assistance in establishing NABU, cooperation during pretrial investigations and support of NABU functional independence.
