Media expose Shabunin's Anti-Corruption Action Center for bringing corrupt officials to appellate courts and the HACC

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy, Anastasia Radina, supported the law, which, according to Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, will open the way for corrupt officials to access the appellate courts and the HACC. This was reported by Law and Business.

For example, Radina, who had long been the head of AntAC advocacy programs and Shabunin's partner before being elected to the Parliament, voted twice for the draft law “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On the Judiciary and Status of Judges’ regarding the specifics of the qualification exam (No. 11425-d) in the first and second readings.

“He removes the threshold in testing judicial candidates for cognitive abilities - a highly complicated IQ test,” Shabunin was outraged, claiming that the authorities allegedly ”need to lower this score in order to get their people through (corrupt officials are not often highly intelligent) in competitions for appellate courts and the High Anti-Corruption Court.

“So, according to Shabunin, it turns out that the head of the anti-corruption committee voted to please corrupt officials who want to get into the appellate and Supreme Anti-Corruption Courts,” the publication writes.

Earlier, Radina also supported a draft law that would allow corrupt officials who have made a deal with the investigation to avoid confiscation of property.

The SBI is investigating a number of criminal cases against Shabunin, including mobilization evasion, forgery of NAPC documents, illegal use of humanitarian aid, and misappropriation of a Nissan Pathfinder jeep that was transferred to the Armed Forces.