On Thursday, July 18, the parliament approved in the first reading bill No. 11340 regarding increasing the effectiveness of concluding agreements on recognition and simultaneous “mitigation” of guilt in criminal proceedings for corruption crimes for certain, fairly high amounts
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In addition, the defendant in a corruption criminal case will have to actively assist the investigation in bringing other accomplices to the crime.
The Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada summarized:
Therefore, “betrayal” is cancelled. No one will be able to buy off guilt, especially for corruption.
Earlier, we wrote that the bill on “commercial” mitigation of the guilt of corrupt officials was submitted to the EU for evaluation.