You're reading: Zelensky restarts National Council on Anti-Corruption Policy with Riaboshapka in charge

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has updated the composition of the National Council on Anti-Corruption Policy; this body is now headed by Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Ruslan Riaboshapka.

The corresponding changes are enshrined in the decree “The Issue of the National Council on Anti-Corruption Policy” dated June 25.

The National Council includes representatives of expert non-governmental organizations, business associations, leaders of anti-corruption and other relevant authorities, etc.

The Board includes executive director of the public organization Transparency International Ukraine Andriy Borovyk (by agreement), executive director of the European Business Association Hanna Derevianko (by agreement), President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine Andy Hunder (by agreement), lawyer, deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine in 2014-2016 Vitaliy Kasko, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov, Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Artem Sytnyk, head of the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Nazar Kholodnytsky (by agreement), director of the State Bureau of Investigations Roman Truba, and others.

For the first time, official status of observers in the National Council was received by representatives of international organizations and diplomatic agencies that provide assistance to Ukraine in the fight against corruption. Thus, the observers are representatives of the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations Development Program, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union Anti-Corruption Initiative in Ukraine, etc.