The Criminal Code of Ukraine is being “cleansed” of traces of “evil power”
The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading bill No. 6220 “On amendments to the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine on entering information into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations and Grounds for Closing Criminal Proceedings,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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The bill proposes to add part one of Article 214 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine with a new paragraph, which provides that the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations does not include information about circumstances that may indicate the commission of a criminal offense, in respect of which a decision has been made to close criminal proceedings or there is a court verdict on that matter. the same charge as the one that came into force; Part one of Article 284 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine should be supplemented with a new paragraph, which provides that criminal proceedings are closed if there is an unreversed decision of the investigator or prosecutor to terminate criminal proceedings on the grounds provided for in paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 9 of this part.
The reason for the adoption of the bill during the discussion was the facts of abuses by law enforcement agencies prosecuting businesses in existing criminal cases. “This problem exists, but this bill will not solve the problem of business - no one is stopping the investigator from taking a different qualification, rewriting the facts and starting a criminal case again,” said Elena Sotnik (Samopomich).
Vasily Nimchenko (Opposition Bloc) spoke out against the bill in its current version.
“How many gangs, armed organizations and inadequate people with weapons do we have? And how many crimes are committed? For information, I will say: up to 4 million administrative and criminal cases go through the courts per year alone. Therefore, it would be wrong to talk about granting the right to decide the issue of refusal to initiate a criminal case and refusal to enter it into the register without checking the circumstances. Look - today we have essentially not considered any serious or especially serious crimes. Second question. Today, no one deprives a person whose case is entered into the register of the right to appeal these actions. And there is no need to put people in a position of insecurity. Therefore, the version of the law that has been proposed does not fit into the framework of the fight against crime and socially dangerous acts, including regarding the initiation of criminal cases and prosecution. The adoption of the law in such a wording will lead to the trouble we have already found ourselves in since 2013,” he said.
Maxim Kuryachiy (“Petro Poroshenko Bloc”) noted in his speech that the previous norms opened up corruption opportunities for law enforcement officers and were adopted under Yanukovych.
“Today, on Maundy Thursday, we continue to clear our legislation of the consequences of the activities of the Yanukovych regime. The criminal procedural code was adopted in 2012, when Yanukovych and his gang thought that they were forever. They came up with such regulations for themselves in order to tighten the screws on Ukrainian citizens,” he said and proposed voting on the law as a whole.
“Criminal procedural legislation is microsurgery, and here you are chopping with a chisel,” said Sergei Vlasenko (Batkivshchyna). – I understand the gentleman from the BPP, who definitely does not understand what jurisprudence is, who began to speak in slogans. The law is good, the ideology is correct, let’s finalize it and adopt it through a legal procedure.”
As a result, the bill was adopted as a basis and must be finalized before the second reading. 258 deputies voted for this decision.
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