The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dismissed the head of the Agency for Asset Recovery and Management (ARMA) Elena Duma.
As Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko reported on Telegram, the decision was made at a government meeting on Wednesday.
“Yesterday, I appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with an initiative to completely restructure the Agency for Asset Recovery and Management. The president supported the government’s plan. Today, at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, the head of the agency was dismissed. I gave instructions to urgently launch a new competition. The competition commission will include representatives of the government and international partners who support Ukraine in the fight against corruption,” she wrote on Telegram.
Svyrydenko stressed that the main task is to ensure that all seized assets, assets of sanctioned individuals, and property belonging to the Russian Federation are used to the maximum extent possible for the defense and stability of Ukraine.
Earlier on Wednesday, Duma said he had written a letter of resignation from his post as head of ARMA and asked the government to accept it.
In turn, the head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, Anastasia Radina (Servant of the People faction Servant of the People faction) admitted that although Duma was formally dismissed at his own request, his resignation may be related to the entry into force of the law on ARMA reform, which gives the government the right to dismiss the current head for ineffective work.
As reported, on July 27, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law on ARMA reform.
