Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk has been placed in the unified public register of persons committed corruption-related offenses.
“The director of NABU, Artem Sytnyk, was found guilty by the court of violating the restrictions imposed by law on receiving gifts. This fact is also reflected in the unified public register of persons committed corruption-related offenses,” Spokesperson for the ex-Prosecutor General Larysa Sarhan wrote on her Facebook page and unveiled a screenshot of the register.
As reported, in May 2019, then Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced that the State Bureau of Investigations established that Sytnyk “forgot to pay a fairly large amount in cash for rest at a hunting base of his family and a family of his friends, according to written statements from the employees of this base.”
“When an official receives any services, and someone else pays, for example, Hr 100,000, then this is called illegal benefit. Mr. Sytnyk should show this in the declaration as a gift or it is better that he pays it himself,” Lutsenko said.
According to him, if Sytnyk does not provide documentary refutations of such a statement by the employees of the hunting and entertainment complex, he will obviously deal with the protocol on corruption, which is being heard by the court.
In July, the police handed an administrative protocol related to corruption for violating the restrictions on receiving gifts (in connection with a vacation at a hunting base) to Sytnyk. Later, a series of hearings were held in the Sarny District Court of Rivne region regarding this protocol.
On September 6, the Sarny district court found Sytnyk guilty and imposed a fine on him. Defending lawyer of the official Vladyslav Kicha appealed the decision.
On December 13, the court of appeals upheld the decision of the court of lower instance related to administrative penalties.
