Legal community reports mass violations during elections to the NABU Public Control Council

Based on the results of the elections to the Public Control Council (PCC) of NABU, law enforcement agencies have every reason to initiate a criminal case. This concerns the victory of candidates from a specific circle of organizations and a disproportionately large gap between those elected and the others. This was written by the well-known lawyer Rostyslav Kravets, UNN reports.

In his opinion, law enforcement officers have every reason to initiate a criminal case following the results of the elections to the NABU Public Control Council. 

"Objective suspicion is absolutely obvious, and this pseudo-public participation must be ended," he wrote.

The well-known lawyer recalled that 15 representatives of 6 public organizations, whom no one knows, won the elections to the PCC.

"It is only during voting for various public control councils that you learn not only the names of anti-corruption fighters unknown to anyone, for whom tens of thousands of Ukrainians 'cast' their votes, but also the pseudo-public associations themselves, which quite often consist of two or three people who run for various councils. The latest example is the pseudo-voting for the public control council at NABU, which boasts that they are independent and that there is no external management," he said.

He also cited data pointed out by his colleague, lawyer Oleh Shram, regarding frequent cases of a large gap in votes between the last person who passed and the one who did not during elections to public councils. 

"In the case of NABU, the difference between 15th and 16th place is 6,956 votes, which is 40%. Objectively, this cannot happen," Kravets stated.

Expert Vyacheslav Panasyuk also drew attention to probable violations during the voting for the PCC, having analyzed the results using mathematical methods.

He emphasized that an analysis of the open voting protocol for the NABU Public Control Council revealed mass repetition of identical ballots, an abnormal concentration of support for specific groups of candidates, a sharp surge in activity at the end of voting, and other statistical features that require verification. Based on this, the expert insists on the need for an independent audit of the voting results for the NABU PCC.

Panasyuk's particular attention was drawn to the concentration of votes in the largest IP clusters.

"It was found that only the 20 largest clusters provided 17,712 ballots, or 39.1% of all votes, and the three largest clusters accumulated 5,817 ballots (12.9% of the total number of votes). Such concentration in itself is not proof of violations, but it is one of the key indicators traditionally checked during audits of electronic voting," he concluded.

As reported, on June 10, 2026, an internet vote took place for the new composition of the Public Control Council at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. The PCC included candidates from six public associations: NGO "Public Control Center", NGO "Anti-Corruption Ax", NGO "Independent Anti-Corruption Commission", NGO "Ukrainian Legal Society", NGO "Institute of Equal Rights", and NGO "D7 Foundation".