The Government of
Ukraine, at an extraordinary meeting on Monday, February 29, adopted a
resolution on the establishment of the State Bureau of Investigation and
approved six out of nine members of the Commission for the selection of an SBI
chairman. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk informed that first
meeting of the Selection Commission would take place on March 1.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
noted that the Government had received an official letter from the
President of Ukraineregarding candidates for the Selection Commission
on the appointment of the chairman of the State Bureau of Investigation.
He reminded that the
Government had appealed to the Parliament and the President for
several times regarding the need to offer candidates to be
included into the Selection Commission for the SBI Director.
"This is an
agency, which shall take up most of the investigative functions that are now within the scope of jurisdiction of the Prosecutor General of
Ukraine", said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The Government
nominated six out of nine members of the Selection Commission.
The candidates
from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine: Natalia Sevostyanova, First
Deputy Minister of Justice; Eka Zguladze-Gluksmann, First Deputy
Minister of Interior; Anton Heraschenko, People's Deputy of
Ukraine, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legislative Support of Law
Enforcement (upon consent).
The candidates
from the President of Ukraine: Roman Maydanyk, head of the Department of civil
law, the Law Faculty, the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv
National University; Victor Samokhvalov, Professor in the Department
of theory of law and state, the Law Faculty, the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv
National University; Tetyana Slipachuk, partner of the law firm
"Sayenko Kharenko".
First Deputy Justice
Minister Natalia Sevostyanova said that under the law "On
the State Bureau of Investigation" the Selection Commission is authorized
to take decisions with five votes, so it could start operation.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
also stressed that the Government of Ukraine adopts a resolution on the establishment
of the State Bureau of Investigation, as the central executive authority.
The Prime Minister informed
that the following day was due the first meeting of the Selection Commission
in order to launch the procedure of appointment of an SBI Director.
Moreover, he
reminded that the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine’s session at the previous plenary
week had contained a bill called to endure the entry into
force of the law of Ukraine on the State Bureau of Investigation "due
to the fact that the process of submission candidates to the Selection Committee
for theappointment of the Director of SBI was delayed by political
forces": "The goal was ,until the appointment of theDirector
of the State Bureau of Investigation and the normal functioning of the SBI,
to remain investigationfunctions within the scope of jurisdiction of the
prosecution."
The Parliament,
the Head of Government reminded, has failed to support the relevant law:
"But the Government does its job".
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
appealed to the Parliament to suggest their candidates as members
of the SelectionCommission and to amend the law of Ukraine on the
State Bureau of Investigation "to leave the functions of
investigation within the scope of jurisdiction of the Prosecutor's
office until the SBI becomes fully operational".
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