On Dec. 7, Ukraine’s parliament is likely to dismiss the head of Ukraine’s only independent anticorruption body, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU). Established in 2015 to target high-level crimes committed by the country’s corrupt political class, NABU has demonstrated a high level of independence led by its director Artem Sytnyk. It has not hesitated to target senior officials, judges, and state enterprise managers who previously possessed de-facto immunity from prosecution.
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Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko shows some documents to Head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau Artem Sytnyk as they attend a parliament session on July 5.