The future anti-corruption court will be fully controlled by the authorities if it is formed on the basis of a quota principle. Such an assumption was made by the MP from UKROP Oleksandr Dubinin on the air of ZIK TV channel.
“If anticorruption court is formed on a quota basis, when the president and the Verkhovna Rada will submit their candidates, all the applicants will be under someone’s pressure,” said the politician.
According to him, judges of the anti-corruption court should be elected in open contests under the supervision (control) of the international observers and society. We cannot allow repeating the situation with selection to the Supreme Court, to which many controversial candidates have got into.
Oleksandr Dubinin also suggested that the Parliament would adopt the law on the anti-corruption court by the end of the year, if the president really wants it. Although the authorities now have all the tools to fight corruption, there is no will.
“Ukrainian legislation already provides criminal liability for bribery and abuse of office, but it does not work,” said the MP.
However, before taking the issue of the anti-corruption court, the Verkhovna Rada has to extend the deadlines set for the launch of the State Investigation Bureau. The body should begin its work on November 20, but the process of its creation has stopped at the stage of selection of candidates for top executive positions.
According to Oleksandr Dubinin, the contest committee has to decide on the final date for launching this bureau, and the parliament should fix it with an appropriate decision.
