“Errors” in officials’ declarations: one third of the elected officials “did not notice” millions
10 October 2024 07:23
According to the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, 1,246,435 declarations were filed by 11 September 2024. The number of corrected documents has almost doubled compared to last year. This is reported by Opendatabot, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
As of mid-September, the number of all declarations (1.2 million) is already 2.8 times higher than in the same period in 2023, when there were 445 thousand. More than 134 thousand or 11% of the submitted declarations were subsequently corrected.
This year, the NACP has started verification of 734 officials’ declarations. In half of them – 392 cases – the checks have already been completed.
Of the fully examined declarations, 46% contain violations totalling UAH 1,856.1 million. In general, all errors are related to incorrectly stated amounts in the declarations. The difference is in the amount of inaccuracies: the amounts were less or more than 500 subsistence minimums.
In 30% of all audited declarations, data totalling UAH 1,808.7 million were incorrect (Article 366-2 of the Criminal Code). On average, officials made a UAH 15 million mistake in each declaration.
In another 16% of the audited declarations, officials made an average of UAH 790 thousand per declaration (Article 172-5(4) of the Code of Administrative Offences). In total, such errors amounted to UAH 47.3 million.
The amount of errors was less than UAH 268 thousand or up to 100 subsistence minimums in every second declaration checked.
Top violations in officials’ declarations:
- Inaccurate information in the amount of less than 100 subsistence minimums – 212 54.1%
- Inaccurate information in the amount of more than 500 subsistence minimums – 119 30.4 per cent
- Inaccurate information in the amount of 100 to 500 subsistence minimums – 60 15.3%
- No violations 1 – 0.3%
Only 1 declaration out of all those checked had no violations.
In some cases, the declarations violated 2 articles at once. 7 declarations also have signs of illicit enrichment totalling UAH 146.3 million (Article 368-5 of the Criminal Code). In another 8 documents, the officials could not explain the origin of the money in the amount of UAH 30.1 million (Article 290 of the Civil Procedure Code).
