The Committee on fighting Organized Crime and Corruption recommends that the Parliament rejects the Bill on Amendments to the Law "On Organizational and Legal Principles of fighting Organized Crime" (re Intensification of Corruption Counteraction by the Special Departments of the Internal Affairs Ministry)
13 November 2009, 13:51
Pursuant
to the Bill (Reg. No. 4329), "the National Bank of Ukraine shall inform
the special departments in charge of fighting organized corruption about the
large-scale financial operations for individuals the amount of which is reduced
from UAH 60,5 thousand to UAH 17 thousand".
The Committee members expressed a number of remarks concerning the Bill. The People´s Deputies believe that "the document is imperfect, as it fails to comply with the effective Laws and the Constitution of Ukraine; hence, its adoption is unreasonable".
Thus, Clause 11 of the Law "On Prevention of and Counteraction to Legalization (Laundering) of Illegally Obtained Income" more clearly determines the conditions for the obligatory financial monitoring of "suspicious" financial operations.
The People´s Deputies also drew attention to the clauses concerning improvement of the procedure, under which the parliamentary Committee on fighting Organized Crime and Corruption shall respond to the refusal of the Prosecutor General to institute criminal proceedings at request of the Committee. Pursuant to the Bill, the Committee shall be authorized to suggest a vote of non-confidence to the Prosecutor General at the plenary meeting, which shall result in the Prosecutor´s dismissal.
The People´s Deputies stated that in this case, participation of the Committee on fighting Organized Crime and Corruption is limited by the drafting and preliminary scrutiny of the issue concerning a vote of non-confidence to the Prosecutor General, the procedure of which is regulated by the Law and the Standing Orders of the Verkhovna Rada.
Thus, the Bill contradicts the Law "On the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committees" and the Standing Orders of the Verkhovna Rada, making it easier to suggest a vote of non-confidence to the Prosecutor General at the plenary meeting.