The party “Ukrainian Patriots Association – UKROP” has filed an appeal against the illegal decision of Pechersk District Court of Kyiv on seizing 469 thousand hryvnias following the audit of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention. The UKROP party lawyer Andriy Husak has told it to the journalists.
“Today we have filed a complaint to the appeal instance. If the appeal instance does not satisfy our demands, we reserve the right to apply to the European Court of Human Rights,” said Andriy Husak. The lawyer has mentioned that with this decision NAZK is pursuing selective repressions against political parties. For some reason the Agency does not check the political forces that have seats in Parliament and have financed their election campaigns through offshore companies, and now receive funds for their activities from the state budget. Instead of this the Agency is putting pressure on the parties that are financed by individuals and legal entities. Another prove of NAZK’s being biased is the fact that the UKROP representatives were refused to be present at the briefing, where the information about such a dubious “achievement” of the Agency was announced.
“This means that NAZK is afraid to hear an alternative opinion, and does not want it to be heard by journalists,” said Andriy Husak and noted that the UKROP representatives would report to the police on hindering their activities.
According to the lawyer, administrative responsibility for paying contributions to UKROP in allegedly illegal manner should be placed on NAZK officials, as they had not prepared by-law for regulating these activities by July 1. Thus UKROP acted in a legal manner according to the NBU regulation that was currently in force.
