According to eyewitness testimony, six police officers beat and killed a man after his wife called the police and complained about him.
Four of the suspects successfully passed vetting earlier this year, and one failed to pass vetting but was reinstated by a court.
Khudetska, who was a member of a vetting commission in the oblast until May, says that police officers in Mykolaiv Oblast and elsewhere have not been vetted properly.
Commission members were overloaded with work and had to interview about 30 officers every day for about 15 minutes each, and many officers were vetted in absentia, Khudetska said.
In May, civil society lost control of many vetting commissions when Interior Ministry representatives and activists linked to the ministry began to dominate the vetting process. Several civil society groups left the commissions to protest against the decision, saying that Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is effectively killing the reform.
Vadym Denysenko, anti-reformer of the week
Vadym Denysenko, a lawmaker from President Petro Poroshenko’s Bloc, lashed out at the electronic declaration system last week, saying that information in property and asset declarations could be used by robbers.
Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko echoed Denysenko’s thoughts on Aug. 30, saying parliament could pass a law to limit public access to declarations in an effort to protect their property from criminals.
In February, Denysenko sponsored controversial loopholes that would allow corrupt officials to escape punishment for lying in declarations, though his amendments were subsequently canceled by parliament.
Critics see attempts to limit public access to electronic declarations as yet another excuse for derailing the electronic declaration system.
This fall the Verkhovna Rada will also try to block electronic declarations by enabling officials not to include their relatives’ property, limiting officials’ criminal responsibility for lying in declarations and exempting from criminal liability those who pay a 5 percent tax on declared wealth, Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s executive board, wrote on his blog on Aug. 31.
The declaration system was formally launched on Sept. 1 but declarations could not be uploaded due to technical difficulties, which some attributed either to another sabotage attempt or incompetence.
