Institutional role of the prosecutor's office in preventing and combating corruption in the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine: delimitation of powers and ways to improve the legal framework

Abstract

The provisions of normative legal acts that determine the prosecutor's office scope of competence, in particular their tasks and functions, have been studied. As a result, it has been found that the current approach to determining the prosecutor's office scope of competence is manifested primarily in the consolidation at the legislative level of the main functions of the prosecutor's office; tasks and functions of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) are fixed at the departmental level of legal regulation without their delimitation.

In order to differentiate the powers of the prosecutor's office to prevent and combat corruption, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) clarified the investigation of criminal corruption and corruption-related offenses committed by NABU employees. It has been established that the prosecutor's office, represented by prosecutors, is authorized to prevent corruption in NABU by participating in proceedings on administrative offenses related to corruption committed by NABU employees.

As a result of the study, it has been concluded that the prosecutor's office, depending on the content of their tasks and functions, are involved in preventing and combating corruption in NABU in different ways, and the content of such activities is clearly dualistic, namely: on the one hand, the SAP in preventing compliance with the law during operational and investigative activities and pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses NABU can prevent or stop possible corruption by NABU employees; on the other hand, the prosecutor's office, if a corruption criminal offense is committed by a NABU official, must, in particular, ensure compliance with the law on the inevitability of liability for a criminal offense, within the competence to compensate for damages caused by such criminal offenses.

The powers of the prosecutor's office to prevent and combat corruption in NABU have been grouped: representative, supervisory, security and law enforcement.

In order to ensure the effective functioning of the SAP, in particular on the prevention and combating of corruption in NABU, the author's version of Section 3 of the Regulation on the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office has been proposed.