Adopted as a basis the Draft Law “On Amending the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of Ukraine to Improve Liability for Declaration of False Information and Non-Submission by a Declarant of the Declaration of Person Authorized to Perform the Functions of the State or Local Self-Government”

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
15 April 2021, 17:30

Adopted as a basis the Draft Law No. 4651 “On Amending the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code of Ukraine to Improve Liability for Declaration of False Information and Non-Submission by a Declarant of the Declaration of Person Authorized to Perform the Functions of the State or Local Self-Government”.

The Draft Law No. 4651 reinstates the sanction in the form of deprivation of liberty (as one of the possible types of punishment) for lying in electronic declarations or failure to submit such declaration. There will be a twofold decrease in the threshold of emergence of criminal liability for declaring false information: down to 2,000 times the minimum subsistence level for able-bodied persons.