Founders of the Center for National Sustainability and Development Oleksandr Danyliuk, Pavlo Klimkin and Ruslan Riaboshapka called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to veto bill No. 3087-d on the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine.
In a statement released March 17, the founders of the center noted that the form and content of the document “demonstrate incompetence and imitation instead of solving pressing problems.”
“The very ideology of the adopted law is incorrect. Its purpose should be to determine the foundations of state policy in the field of combating economic crime. Such state policy should get rid of the practice of ‘intimidation’ of business and be based on interference in entrepreneurial activity only when there is an obvious and real threat to the interests of society or other business entities,” the co-founders of the center said.
They add that the law “contains many ambiguous and incomprehensible formulations”, in particular, the founders of the center are particularly concerned about the procedure for forming a commission to select the head of the Bureau of Economic Security.
“Three members of the commission are appointed by the government, three more by the NSDC, which is headed by the president. And three by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. That is, under the current political conditions, the entire commission will be controlled in one way or another by Bankova. This is very convenient, on the one hand, you can hide behind a competition and relieve yourself of political responsibility for the appointment, and on the other hand, you can get a completely controlled head of the bureau,” the statement said.
It noted that the powers to counter economic crime remain within the National Police, the SBI, the SBU, and not only in the new Bureau, which creates a threat of duplication of functions and political “juggling with affairs”.
