{"id":1267194,"date":"2025-07-24T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/will-return-powers-and-independence-zelenskyy-submitted-a-draft-law-on-nabu-and-sapo-to-the-rada\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:29:58","slug":"will-return-powers-and-independence-zelenskyy-submitted-a-draft-law-on-nabu-and-sapo-to-the-rada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/will-return-powers-and-independence-zelenskyy-submitted-a-draft-law-on-nabu-and-sapo-to-the-rada\/","title":{"rendered":"Will return powers and independence: Zelenskyy submitted a draft law on NABU and SAPO to the Rada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a law on &#8220;strengthening the powers of the NABU and the SAPO.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The bill <a href=\"https:\/\/itd.rada.gov.ua\/billInfo\/Bills\/Card\/56899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was published<\/a> on the parliament&#8217;s website on Thursday, July 24.<\/p>\n<p> The document stipulates that the Prosecutor General and his deputies do not have the right to give instructions to prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p> SAPO employees are subordinate exclusively to the head of the SAPO, his first deputy and deputy. The Prosecutor General is also prohibited from influencing the work of NABU detectives.<\/p>\n<p> The bill also repeals the addition to Article 480 of the Criminal Procedure Code with norms on a special procedure for criminal proceedings against the head of a permanent auxiliary body established by the President and his deputies, the Prime Minister, ministers and deputies, category &#8220;A&#8221; civil servants, the Director of the State Bureau of Investigation, and the Director of the BEB.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, the head of the SAPO will be able to report suspicions to people&#8217;s deputies, candidates, and the President of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> The bill also introduces SBU polygraph tests of employees of the NABU, SAPO, as well as the BEB, the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the National Police, who have access to state secrets, for committing actions in favor of the aggressor state.<\/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, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/prezydent-pidpysav-zakon-pro-zminu-povnovazhen-nabu-ta-sap\/\">signed it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ni-koruptsii-u-vladi-u-bahatokh-mistakh-ukrainy-prokhodiat-mitynhy-proty-zakonu-shchodo-nabu-ta-sap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">society negatively perceived the actual destruction of anti-corruption bodies. On July 22 and 23, hundreds of people in many cities of Ukraine took to rallies against Law No. 12414<\/a> .<\/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>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a law on &#8220;strengthening the powers of the NABU and the SAPO.&#8221; The bill was published on the parliament&#8217;s website on Thursday, July 24. The document stipulates that the Prosecutor General and his deputies do not have the right to give instructions to prosecutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1256902,"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-1267194","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\/1267194","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=1267194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1256902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}