Reinstating the obligation for officials to file asset and income declarations in the coming months is one of the conditions of the $15.6 billion expanded EFF financing program approved by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Ukraine on Friday, Fund mission chief Gavin Gray said.
“Under the program, the authorities are committed to a targeted recovery of asset declarations even in the current circumstances. We see this as an important measure…,” he said at a briefing Friday.
Gray specified that the IMF will work with the authorities on this issue in order to resolve it by the first review of the program in June-July this year.
As reported, in February this year, the ambassadors of G7 countries in Ukraine expressed hope that the Verkhovna Rada will soon resume the system of electronic declaration of assets and income of officials, which was suspended during martial law, which “will prevent corruption and strengthen citizens’ trust in government.
Chairman of the National Agency for Combating Corruption (NACC) Oleksandr Novikov said in mid-March that he expects the resumption of declarations in the next two months, but believes that the public part of the register of declarations should remain hidden until the end of the war.
According to him, all public authorities have access to the data of the register of declarations and the data they need to perform their official duties.
Declarations for the year 2022 filed about 6% of declarants. For 2021 – up to 50%, including two deputy heads of the presidential office, the Minister of Education and Science, the Minister of Defense, 28 people’s deputies, five heads of regional military administrations and 163 judges.
