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NAPK revealed signs of administrative and criminal offenses in Batkivshchyna report
This is the first time such a sanction has been applied since the launch of the NAPK and the implementation of the quarterly report for parties in 2016.
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPK) in the fourth quarter of 2020 stopped state funding for Batkivshchyna VO due to violations found in its financial report. This was announced by the Kiev District Administrative Court (OASK).
It is reported that on November 23, Yulia Tymoshenko’s party appealed in court against the NAPC’s decision to stop state funding.
In turn, the NAPK claims that it has identified violations in the Batkivshchyna report for the first quarter of 2020. In particular, with regard to the reporting of the party’s regional organizations and its central office, namely:
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lack of report from the municipal party organization of the city of Ukrainka;
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lack of information on the presence of financial obligations with LLC Fineit for 45 thousand hryvnia;
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signing invoices to accept sponsorship contributions in the form of brochures, brochures and posters by persons who at the time of signing these documents were abroad and could not take legal action to accept sponsorship contributions (applies to regional organizations in Sumy and Kiev);
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with regard to donors from the Kiev city organization and the Kirovograd regional organization, a discrepancy was revealed between donor income and the amount of their contributions to these cells in 2017-2020;
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agreements with various companies totaling more than 14 million UAH had a date prior to the opening of the bank accounts indicated in them, in which the NAPK sees indications of violation of art. 203 of the Civil Code (we are talking about the spending of funds that the party received from the state budget as compensation for the costs of the parliamentary electoral campaign).
It is noted that the NAPK identified in the report indications of administrative and criminal offenses, which is why it decided to stop state funding of the party, as of the fourth quarter of 2020.
Payment of state funds can be restored if the party eliminates the reasons that led to the suspension of funding.
In his lawsuit against OASK, Batkivshchyna calls for “recognizing the actions of NAPK employees as illegal” and canceling the order to suspend state funding.
Now the court is deciding whether there are “legal grounds to take measures to secure the claim and the initiation of administrative proceedings.”
The CHESNO public movement points out that the decision on Batkivshchyna is the first made directly by the NAPK, following the results of the audit of the financial statements: “This is the first case of application of such a sanction since the launch of the NAPK and the introduction of a quarterly report for the parties in 2016 “.
It was previously reported that most cases of party financing violations have been closed. The courts have closed 80% of those cases. At the same time, NAPK is examining another 381 cases.
For six months, NAPK counted 2,000 corrupt officials
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