The Verkhovna
Rada on Tuesday passed one of the bills from the so-called "visa-free
package" in a first reading to improve the activity of the National Agency
for Recovery and Management of Stolen Assets.
This No. 4056 bill on amendments to some laws of
Ukraine concerning the fulfillment of recommendations stipulated in the sixth
report by the European Commission on the implementation of the action plan to
liberalize the visa regime with the European Union for Ukraine was supported by
282 MPs.
The bill introduces changes to the law on the national
agency for identification, recovery and management of assets received as a
result of corruption and other crimes.
These changes authorize the Agency not
only to retain assets that have been frozen as part of criminal proceedings,
but also to own, use and/or sell or dispose of such assets, including through
technological processing or transfer of seized assets to management.
The bill also suggests that the amount of salaries of
the agency's personnel should be sealed legislatively, which will be an
additional guarantee of their independence. What is more, the bill proposes
elimination of technical discrepancies in the clauses of that law.
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