The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPK), when checking the declarations of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov, will take into account information about the offshore scandal that arose after the publication of the Pandora Papers investigation, the head of NAPK Alexander Novikov told Radio NV.

" During the audit, we use, among other things, media data, we cooperate with journalists. So this information will also be taken into account... The first assistant to the president on a voluntary basis (Sergei Shefir - IF) is not a person filing the declaration, and therefore, we cannot check the declaration. And we check the declaration of the head of the SBU, "

The chairman of the NAPK added that the verification of the declarations of Zelensky and Bakanov is not due to the information published by journalists, but according to the order of priority.

“The first declaration that is checked in the country is the declaration of the President. The check was started back in April and its results will be published by October 18, "

At the same time, the chairman of the NAPK explained whether the facts set out in the journalistic investigation can be a basis for bringing officials to justice.

" ) funds in the accounts of offshore companies is not a violation. It is a violation not to reflect the companies themselves if these companies are owned by the subjects. I want to say that the law on the prevention of corruption contains part 3 of article 46. She says that only objects that are registered with offshore companies are displayed, if this is property that is not used in economic activities, "

Novikov added that everything else is not subject to reflection in the declaration.

“That is, the funds are not subject to reflection in the declaration if they do not belong to an individual, but to a legal entity, which are companies... By themselves, these facts, which took place in 2012, cannot be the basis for liability. They can be the basis if they continued to exist on December 31, 2020 and were not reflected in the declaration. Whether they existed or did not exist is a subject of complete verification.. The actions of 2012, in principle, cannot be qualified as a violation within the competence of the NAPC, "

At the same time, Novikov said that at present, NAPK has not received any requests to verify the facts set out in the investigation film..

As reported with reference to the data of Slidstvo. Info " Ukrainians, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his colleagues from previous work, Minister of Culture Alexander Tkachenko, businessmen Alexander Yaroslavsky, Igor Voronin and Rinat Akhmetov, ex-owners of PrivatBank Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, deputy Alexander Gerega - are mentioned in a new global leak of offshore.

According to the data they received, in particular, the offshore companies of Zelensky and his team since 2012 allegedly received $ 40 million from offshore companies associated with Kolomoisky, when the Kvartal 95 studio began to cooperate with the businessman's 1 + 1 TV channel..

At the same time, it is indicated that before being elected president in 2019, Zelensky transferred his share in an offshore company to the first assistant to the president of Ukraine, Serhiy Shefir..

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Earlier it was reported that the District Administrative Court of the city of Kiev (OASK) opened administrative proceedings, having read the statement of claim of the judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CC) Alexander Kasminin against the National Agency for Combating Corruption (NAPK).