{"id":1266794,"date":"2025-07-23T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-announced-a-bill-to-ensure-the-independence-of-nabu-and-sapo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:57:21","slug":"zelenskyy-announced-a-bill-to-ensure-the-independence-of-nabu-and-sapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-announced-a-bill-to-ensure-the-independence-of-nabu-and-sapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy announced a bill to ensure the independence of NABU and SAPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy will propose to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill that will respond to public concerns about the independence of the NABU and the SAPO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/15253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stated<\/a> this in his address on July 23.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I will propose to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill that will be a response that will provide strength to the law and order system,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p> Zelenskyy stated that there will be no Russian influence or interference in the activities of the NABU and SAPO, however, he emphasized the importance of the independence of anti-corruption institutions.<\/p>\n<p> He also called on the heads of law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, as well as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, to provide proposals for norms that should work.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This will be a presidential bill, and we will implement it as part of our strategy for transforming the state,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p> He also emphasized that the most important thing at the moment is &#8220;not to lose the unity of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> People&#8217;s Deputy from the &#8220;EU&#8221; party Oleksiy Honcharenko <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/oleksiihoncharenko\/48507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that the Rada will urgently convene to vote on Zelensky&#8217;s new draft law on NABU and SAPO next week.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on July 22, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/deputaty-pidtrymaly-zakon-pro-pidporiadkovunnia-nabu-i-sap-henprokuroru\/\">the Verkhovna Rada voted for a bill that significantly limits the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (SAP)<\/a> , effectively subordinating their activities to the Prosecutor General.<\/p>\n<p> It should be noted that Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/prezydent-pidpysav-zakon-pro-zminu-povnovazhen-nabu-ta-sap\/\">Zelenskyy signed a resonant law that significantly changes the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (SAP), strengthening control by the Prosecutor General.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-radi-hotuiut-podannia-do-konstytutsiynoho-sudu-dlia-skasuvannia-zakonu-shchodo-nabu-i-sap\/\">the Verkhovna Rada plans to prepare a submission to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to repeal Law No. 12414,<\/a> which limits the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (SAP).<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy will propose to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill that will respond to public concerns about the independence of the NABU and the SAPO. He stated this in his address on July 23. &#8220;I will propose to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a bill that will be a response that will provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1264862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76878,76885],"class_list":["post-1266794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-society","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}