A special fund disappeared from the draft state budget for 2018, which received funds confiscated from corruption crimes. This is stated in the text of the bill, promulgated on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the press service of the Center for Combating Corruption. In fact, "corrupt" money, which should have been sent to specifically defined areas (primarily defensive), will now dissolve on general treasury accounts.

"Special Fund" Confiscated funds and funds received from the sale of property confiscated by a court decision for corrupt and corruption-related offenses "provided that the return of corrupt assets would be a transparent and controlled process. In the absence of such a mechanism, money will go to the general fund of the state budget, that is, in fact, they will mix with other revenues, and it will be impossible to track their use, "explains the lawyer of the Center for Counteracting Corruption Tatiana Shevchuk.

Original article: The government removed from the draft budget for 2018 a special fund on confiscated money.