The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has sent 300 inquiries to 57 countries of the world on the affairs of Ukrainian top corrupt officials in the framework of cooperation with the European Organization for Justice (Eurojust), which began in 2016. The NABU press service said 130 of the 300 requests have been fulfilled.
Latvia, Cyprus, Austria, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are leading among the countries where “Ukrainian corrupt officials left their mark, and to the competent authorities of which the NABU applied most often,” the report says.
Officers from the international legal department of the NABU on March 14-15 visited Eurojust in The Hague (the Netherlands) at the invitation of the host country. Within the framework of the visit, the parties discussed the issues of mutual legal assistance in criminal proceedings. They discussed the application of the provisions of the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters of 1959, the Second Additional Protocol to the European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters of 2001, as well as the peculiarities of bilateral interaction with national representatives of the states, with which the NABU cooperates more often.
