The Transparency International non-governmental organization asks the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to amend the provision on appeal in the Law of Ukraine On Higher Anticorruption Court.
The organization has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the report, now the transitional provisions of the law have a term under which all the courts-considered appeals within the cases investigated by the National Anticorruption Bureau (NACB) will be considered by general jurisdiction courts instead of the Chamber of Appeal of the Anticorruption Court.
According to Transparency International, President Petro Poroshenko must immediately request respective amendment.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, on Wednesday, the Holos Ukrainy parliamentary newspaper has published the Law of Ukraine On Higher Anticorruption Court.
The document suggests that President Petro Poroshenko table a technical bill on establishment of the Anticorruption Court for consideration of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The Anticorruption Court is formed of judges, investigative judges and judges of a chamber of appeal.
The number of Anticorruption Court judges will be determined later.
The Anticorruption Court will hear criminal cases upon corruption investigated by the National Anticorruption Bureau (NACB), however, only in the case when such a crime exceeds the size of the living wage for able-bodied persons 500 or more times (at preset it is UAH 881,000).
Besides, the bill envisions establish of the Public Council of International Experts able to veto Anticorruption Court judges' candidacies.
The Council is established for the period of 6 years by the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) and is an auxiliary body.
Council members are appointed on the basis of proposals from international organizations Ukraine is cooperating with in the field of prevention and counteraction to corruption under respective international agreements.
Members of the Public Council can be citizens of Ukraine or foreigners having irreproachable business reputation, high professional and moral qualities, working experience of at least 5 years in other countries.
The Council members will be remunerated with UAH 132,200, the wage of a Supreme Court judge and will also receive fare and accommodation compensation (for those living abroad).
The Public Council of International Experts collects, checks and analyzes information about judge candidates and hands it over to the HQCJ.
At that initiative of at least three Council members, a joint meeting with the HQCJ can be convened.
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