Late filing of declaration – got into the Register of “corrupt officials”: lawyer reveals the intricacies of e-declaration
28 November 08:45
EXCLUSIVE
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption conducts full inspections of only 0.15% of all submitted declarations each year. At the same time, according to the NACP, the number of violations, including criminal ones, is growing. In an interview with the YouTube channel
According to the lawyer, although at first glance the figure of 0.15% seems negligible, it is not. In fact, it shows that the anti-corruption system is working on a point-by-point basis: those officials whose data are in the “risk zone” are checked.
“A small percentage of verified declarations hides a huge amount of work. The NACP employee has to check all registers, bank accounts, property and non-property rights, and the lifestyle of the declarant. This is the precision and efficiency of the system, not its weakness,” explains Andriy Mazalov.
He also said that in 10 months of 2025, the NACP completed 846 full inspections of declarations, and 843 of them revealed violations. These are administrative, disciplinary and criminal offenses.
“58% of the verified declarations contain signs of corruption offenses. In 13 declarations, signs of illicit enrichment amounting to more than UAH 426 million were found. Another 24 declared cases involve unjustified assets worth more than UAH 110 million,” the lawyer notes, recalling that in 2021 the share of such violations was only 19%, in 2024 – 48%.
Andriy Mazalov emphasizes that the most common violations among declarants are not hidden millions of dollars in assets, but rather the usual late submission of declarations. This may be due to a system failure or a person’s stay in the war zone. But most often, it is due to the human factor, the lawyer says.
“A person simply forgets to file a declaration and receives a protocol, a fine and automatic entry into the Register of Corrupt Practitioners. After that, the employer is obliged to take disciplinary measures, up to and including dismissal. And an entry in the register closes the way to the civil service for three years and puts a reputational stigma on the person for life,” he explains.
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The NACP explains that most of the reports do not give grounds for action because
- the issues raised go beyond the agency’s powers – for example, they fall within the competence of the NABU, the SBI or the police;
- there are no specific facts or evidence, only assumptions;
the reports concern private sector individuals who are not subject to anti-corruption legislation; - the discrepancies in the declarations do not exceed the threshold of 150 subsistence minimums;
- or the statute of limitations has expired, most often in cases of declarations submitted before 2023.
