Uglava oversaw an anti-corruption drive in Georgia as a deputy prosecutor general from 2009 to 2012, and seeks to transplant these practices into Ukraine.
The bureau on June 29 searched the house of Konstyantyn Kulik, the chief military prosecutor of the war zone, and filed a notice of suspicion against him in an unlawful enrichment case.
Earlier this month, the bureau also submitted a request to parliament to arrest lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko, who is accused of running a Hr 3 billion ($120 million) embezzlement scheme.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and anti-corruption prosecutors have since arrested 11 other suspects in the embezzlement case.
Anti-reformer of the week: Viktor Danylyshyn
Viktor Danylyshyn, a Kyiv Administrative District Court judge, is infamous for, on dubious grounds, exempting from dismissal under the lustration law several top officials who served under ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
The Civic Lustration Committee said last week that the Higher Qualification Commission for Judges would vet Danylyshyn and two other judges of his court, Ihor Kachur and Volodymyr Keleberda. Kachur and Keleberda have also ruled in favor of lustrated officials.
Danylyshyn and yet another judge of Kyiv’s Administrative District Court, Bohdan Sanin, could themselves be subject to lustration because they banned rallies in Kyiv during the 2013-2014 EuroMaidan Revolution. Sanin has become the court’s official spokesman, Radio Liberty reported on June 29.
Pavlo Vovk, head of the court, is also controversial because of his meetings with lawmaker Oleksandr Hranovsky, an ally of President Petro Poroshenko who is accused of interfering with the judicial system.
