The Investigating Officers of the State Bureau of Investigation opened their first criminal proceedings concerning the fact of possible gaining of improper advantage on a large scale by law enforcement officers (part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
This information was reported by the management of the SBI.
On November 27, 300 Investigating Officers of the State Bureau of Investigation started their work. Moreover, it was clarified that the central office and seven territorial offices of the Bureau, whose activities cover entire Ukraine, started their work simultaneously.
The investigative units specializing in three following areas were formed in the central office and territorial offices of the Bureau:
- investigation of crimes in the field of official activities and corruption;
- investigation of crimes committed by law enforcement officers and in the field of justice;
- investigation of military crimes.
7 territorial offices were established; they are located in the cities of Kyiv (covering the city of Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Cherkasy and Chernihiv Oblasts), Kramatorsk (covering Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts), Lviv (covering Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil Oblasts), Melitopol (covering the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson Oblasts, the city of Sevastopol), Mykolayiv (covering Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa Oblasts), Poltava (covering Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv Oblasts), Khmelnytskyi: spreading its activities in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, and Chernivtsi Oblasts.
It is a reminder that the SBI is a central executive body with a special status, a special procedure for determining its overall structure, funding and organizational support for activities. The tasks of the SBI include prevention, detection, suppression, uncovering and investigation of:
1) crimes committed by officials occupying especially responsible position (President, members of the CMU, the Prosecutor General, people’s deputies, heads of high-level courts, their deputies), persons whose positions fall under the first – third category of the civil service (heads of central executive authorities, heads of structural subdivisions of ministries, heads of administrations of appeal and local courts, their deputies, etc.), judges and staff members of law-enforcement agencies, unless these crimes fall under the jurisdiction of the Detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine;
2) crimes committed by officials of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Deputy General Prosecutor – Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office or other Prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, unless the pre-trial investigation of these crimes falls under the jurisdiction of the Detectives of the Internal Control Unit of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine;
3) crimes against the established order of military service (military crimes), except for the crimes involving the disclosure of military information representing state secrets, or loss of documents or materials containing such information.
SBI Director notes SBI establishment allowed to complete the picture of the law-enforcement authorities in Ukraine: the SBI shall investigate crimes by upper echelons of power, law enforcement officers, judges, military officers; NABU – a series of corruption crimes of upper officials; the National Police – crimes committed by other citizens; the SBU – crimes against the national security; the State fiscal service – certain crimes in economic area. The prosecutor’s offices shall effect supervision thereover.
SDM Partners considers SBI establishment positively bringing law enforcement principles in line with European practice, and recognizes optimistic perspectives enabling corruption component minimization and improvement of the investment attractiveness of Ukraine.
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