10:15, 10.12.20 Politics 168
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Chief of the European Union Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas says the newly adopted bill restoring criminal liability for inaccurate declaration of assets by officials requires some improvement.
The comment came as Maasikas was speaking at an online discussion Joining efforts against democracy-killers: corruption, money laundering, and propaganda, broadcast by the Anti-Corruption Action Center on Facebook, an UNIAN correspondent reports. The European Union made clear its position on the law that was adopted last Friday by the Verkhovna Rada aiming to restore the asset declaration system. We recognized that this is a step in coping with the Constitutional Court s decisions, but it falls short in restoring a real working deterrent system of asset declarations. So our position is that this law needs to be