• Anticorruption court: the High Qualification Commission of Judges started assessing written assignments of candidates. This may take 1-3 weeks, according to the HQCJ.  When results are announced, the Public Council of International Experts will have 30 days to filter out questionable candidates. However, in the last week there has been no progress in resolving any of the issues (access to information, funding to cover costs of PCIE stay and work) that are necessary to enable the PCIE to implement their mandate. This looks as a part of the strategy aimed at forcing the PCIE to ban as few questionable candidates as possible. 

• Results of NABU/SAPO work in October: 730 proceeding are under investigation

• Following Automaidan's investigation and upon AntAC's appeal NABU started to investigate false statements in the e-declaration of Kharkiv judge. On November 7 she was handed the notice of suspicion;

Though Ukraine is a front-runner in disclosing information about companies’ beneficial ownership, subject legislation still contains loopholes and is implemented only partially, while lack of effective sanctions can cause the reform never going beyond progressive legislation.

In 2017, conditionality on beneficial ownership verification was among those which Ukraine failed to implement and therefore lost the third tranche of the EU Macro-Financial Assistance. In 2018, under EU-Ukraine MoE on new Macro-Financial Assistance, Ukraine once again obliged to introduce a number of measures to ensure effective beneficial ownership verification.

In our brief, we are explaining what steps are to be taken with regards to beneficial ownership verification. Full text.