Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Nazar Kholodnytsky has said that the Prosecutor General’s Office plans to downsize SAPO by 10 percent.
“I learned today that the Prosecutor General’s Office is planning to downsize SAPO by 10 percent. I wrote a letter about increasing the staff, but I was refused. The budget for 2017-2018 is based on the number that I’m asking. Of the 45 positions, they want to dismiss five people. There are still seven vacancies, that is, we have just two vacancies left,” he said in an interview with the Censor.Net online news site.
He noted that the workload on SAPO employees had grown by one and a half times over the past year.
“At the beginning of the year, there were approximately 300 proceedings, and now it’s 508, not to mention the trials! Hr 116 million was envisaged for SAPO this year. Next year it will be Hr 113 million. We are a single law enforcement agency that saw a reduction in funding,” Kholodnytsky said.
