High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine

The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Вищий антикорупційний суд України) is to be established before the end of 2018.[1][2] Cases concerning corruption in Ukraine will be bought directly to this court.[3] The jurisdiction of the court covers crimes that caused damage wearth at least USD 31 thousand.[4] Appeals will be considered by a completely separate Appeal Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court.[3]

Structure

The court will have 35 judges appointed and at least 10 of them appointed to the Appeals Chamber.[4] These judges and persons living with them, spouses, parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, spouse’s parents, grandchildren, adopted children and foster parents shall have 24/7 protection.[4] The judges will be elected by the High Judicial Qualifications Commission with the help of the Public Council of International Experts (a new body of six people that may consist of foreigners and Ukrainians).[4]

History

In December 2016 then Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko said that a relevant bill for creating a special anti-corruption court was ready to be sent to the Ukrainian parliament.[5] Parliament saw the draft in December 2017.[5] Parliament adopted the final version of this law on 7 June 2018.[1] The law on the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine came into force on 14 June 2018.[1] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed the law "On the establishment of the High Anti-Corruption Court" on 26 June 2018.[6]

The law had undergone about 2,000 amendments during its passage. The International Monetary Fund will have to assess if it is sufficient to meet its anti-corruption requirements to release the next tranche of money under its $17.5 billion cash-for-reforms agreement.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Law on High Anti-Corruption Court comes into force, Interfax-Ukraine (14 June 2018)
  2. ↑ Poroshenko submits bill on creating Anti-Corruption Court to High Judicial Council, Interfax-Ukraine (14 June 2018)
    (in Ukrainian) Anticorruption court launched. The CPC claims to be "substituting" the appeal, Ukrayinska Pravda (13 June 2018)
    Ukraine's parliament eventually passes law on anti-corruption court, UNIAN (7 June 2018)
    Ukraine's Rada adopts bill on establishing High Anti-Corruption Court, UNIAN (21 June 2018)
  3. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) Closed vertical. What is the Higher Anti-Corruption Court and why its creation is afraid of politics?, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 June 2018)
  4. 1 2 3 4 Ukrainian Parliament adopts Law on Supreme Anti-Corruption Court, 112 Ukraine (7 June 2018)
  5. 1 2 "Urgent" anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine, UNIAN (29 May 2018)
  6. ↑ Poroshenko signs law on establishing High Anti-Corruption Court, UNIAN (26 June 2018)
  7. ↑ Williams, Matthias (8 June 2018). "Ukraine's sacked finance minister says no will in cabinet for gas price hike". Reuters. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
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