Where are the most corrupt in Ukraine: ranking of regions
12 April 2024 11:33
in 2023, 2.4 thousand people were included in the Register of Corrupt Officials. Lviv and Kyiv regions were the richest in corruption. This was reported by the open data platform Opendatabot, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
2,420 people were included in the Register of Corrupt Officials last year. This is 65% less than in pre-war 2021. Back then, the list was replenished with almost 7,000 entries.
Over the past three years, Lviv region has been the leader in terms of sentences handed down. The number of records has also decreased since the beginning of the great war: while in 2021 there were 537, last year there were only 192.
Where there are more corrupt officials:
- Lviv region 192
- Kyiv region 188
- Odesa region 181
- Dnipro region 176
- Vinnytsia region 169
- Kyiv 137
- Sumy region 127
- Rivne region 117
- Chernihiv region 109
- Ternopil region 107
- Khmelnytsky region 104
- Chernivtsi region 98
- Cherkasy region 96
- Volyn region 90
- Transcarpathian region 87
- Poltava region 77
- Kirovograd region 73
- Zhytomyr region 69
- Donetsk region 62
- Ivano-Frankivsk region 58
- Kharkiv region 57
- Zaporizhzhya region 26
- Mykolaiv region 18
- Kherson 2.
What was most often punished for
In 2021, people were mostly included in the Corrupt Practices Register due to violations related to declarations – 75.9% of sentences. In 2023, the share of such cases dropped to 1.6%. This is due to the fact that since the beginning of the great war, the NACP has not checked officials’ declarations, and the filing of declarations was not mandatory.
Therefore, in 2022-2023, the majority of people were included in the register because of an offer or promise of an undue benefit for actions or inaction in government – 38.2% and 53.1% of cases, respectively.
They were more likely to be punished for it:
- Offering, promising or giving an undue advantage to a public official – 1,284 – 53.1 per cent
- Violation of requirements for prevention and settlement of conflicts of interest – 717 – 29.6 per cent
- Abuse of influence – 142 – 5.9 per cent
- Acceptance of an offer, promise or receipt of an unlawful benefit by an official – 119 – 4.9%
- Misappropriation, embezzlement or seizure of property through abuse of office – 58 – 2.4%
- Other – 100 – 4.1%
How corrupt officials are most often punished
Most often, offenders are sentenced to fines – 92% of sentences. Imprisonment and community service or probation account for 5-8% of sentences.
How corrupt officials are punished:
- Fines – 2,224 – 91.9%
- Imprisonment – 123 – 5.1%
- Probationary period – 30 – 1.2%
- Community service – 16 – 0.7 per cent
- Exemption from punishment – 14 – 0.6 per cent
- Restriction of liberty – 12 – 0.5 per cent
- Arrest – 1 – 0.0%.
Currently, the Register even contains sentences of life imprisonment for corrupt officials. However, in this case, an additional punishment for corruption was imposed on a man already sentenced to life imprisonment. He offered a UAH 2,000 bribe to a prison officer to allow him to receive a Vodafone modem. The new sentence for corruption was added to the previous sentence, and the man was listed in the Register of Corrupt Officials as a life prisoner.
Another prisoner offered $200 a month to the warden to allow him to walk freely around the prison. As a result, he now has to serve an additional 11 years and is now on the corruption register for life.
