Rada returns confiscation of property from corrupt officials

The Verkhovna Rada has corrected the conflict that resulted in the cancellation of the norm of confiscation of property from corrupt officials.

This was announced by Yaroslav Zhelezniak, MP from the Holos faction, on his Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

A total of 276 MPs voted for bill No. 12243-1, with the minimum required 226.

It is envisaged that an additional punishment in the form of confiscation of property will be applied in the event of a person being released from serving a probationary sentence as a result of a conviction based on a plea agreement for a corruption offense.

We would like to remind you that due to a technical and legal error, the norms of the approved presidential bill on awards overlapped with the norms of the bill on agreements with the investigation.

This created a conflict in the legislation and allowed corrupt officials who made agreements with the investigation to avoid confiscation of property.

The bill adopted today should correct this error and restore the confiscation of property.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the Verkhovna Rada allowed the deprivation of state awards for popularizing or propagating the aggressor state of russia or committing other illegal actions against Ukraine.

The corresponding bill was submitted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in July.

In particular, Zelenskyy implemented the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to deprive the state awards of Ukraine, the first list included 34 traitors.