One of EU’s conditions for negotiations on Ukraine’s membership is abolition of "Lozovyi’s amendments" - Shabunin
In order to negotiate accession to the EU, Ukraine must amend the legislation that allows for procedural delays and imposes unrealistic limits on the timing of pre-trial investigations into corruption cases. We are talking about the so-called Lozovyi’s amendments.
This was reported by the head of the Anti-Corruption Center Vitalii Shabunin, informs Censor.NET.
"Over the coming year, Ukraine should, among other things: continue to improve its progress in investigating, prosecuting and delivering final judgments in high-level corruption cases," the Commission writes in a report that gives start negotiations on our accession to the EU.
The reality is that "decisions in cases of high-level corruption" will consist in the closure of these cases by "Lozovyi's amendments". Let me remind you that the cancellation of the latter is blocked by the "servants of the people" from the relevant committee of the Verkhovna Rada (headed by Serhiy Ionushas). This is how the first episode of "Rotterdam+" and the Alperin case were already closed. In the coming months, another 30+ already investigated TOP corruption cases will be demolished," Shabunin writes.
According to the head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, the EU is well aware of this problem, so a separate requirement was noted in the report to revise the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code and the Criminal Code, which allow procedural delays and set unrealistic restrictions on the terms of pre-trial investigation (referring to the same "Lozovyi's amendments").
