Officials can not declare their income

The current government - from the president to the heads of regional administrations - this year has a unique opportunity not to publish information about their income. About this newspaper "Delo". The publication explains that the new law on principles of preventing and combating corruption, which also require senior officials to publish information on income and property, has not yet been adopted - the Verkhovna Rada on the third reading it will get only 8 April. The resulting legislative vacuum allows representatives of the supreme authority not to disclose publicly information about its financial success over the past year. Even if the law will be adopted as soon as possible. The publication stresses that the anti-corruption instrument that MPs are just going to take, establishes strict timelines for the publication of those details - maximum of 30 days from the date of filing of declarations to the tax authorities (as we know, tax returns filed before April 1). Thus, many senior officials, who filed the declaration at the beginning of the year, has already missed the deadline set by the new law to publish such information in the media. But the law is not retroactive and responsibility for the published information will not be anyone to carry, and thus hasten to bear its financial statements in the press organs of civil servants does not make sense, sums up the newspaper. As reported March 15, the Verkhovna Rada adopted on second reading the draft law "On basics of preventing and combating corruption in Ukraine." At the same time, the deputies decided to send in the relevant committee for revision of Article 1 (Definitions), Article 11 (Special Screening of persons applying for positions related to the functions of the state or local governments), Article 12 (Financial control), as well as in "Final Provisions" and then presenting them at second reading. Ministry of Industry