Last week, the controversial "power cleansing" process in Ukraine received its latest "exposure." A so-called "Register of Persons Subject to Lustration" was published on the website of the Public Lustration Committee. The information on individuals who, according to the Committee's activists, should soon be "removed" from their positions became publicly available. These include, in particular, high-ranking officials of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Fiscal Service, judges serving both in the central offices of agencies and in the local areas, and... the dead.
However, behind the latest "dumping" of a list of "guilty" individuals, hoping to show the public that "lustration continues," one notices the fact that the creation of this "register" was carried out in violation of the current Law "On the Purification of Government" and the Law "On Information." But the Ministry of Justice officials and "professional lustrators," as they say, are keeping a low profile about this.
Public lustrators are accusing regional officials of… the shooting of the Heavenly Hundred
Looking at the newly created registry, one can see that its creators have labored diligently, approaching the task with the utmost responsibility. For example, the sections of the "lustration list" are structured by ministry and agency, and the list also includes the names of regional officials.
For example, the section “Prosecutor’s Office” contains 114 names of those to whom, in the opinion of the Public Lustration Committee, the provisions of the Law “On the Purification of Power” should be applied.
For example, among these "lucky ones" is the name of the chief accountant of the Prosecutor General's Office, Lyudmila Yerkhova. On the website, she is listed as a "high-ranking member of Yanukovych's time," as she has held her position since August 2012, and therefore, the provisions of the Law on the Purification of Power should be applied to her.
Among those undesirable was the now fugitive former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka (could it be that the lustrators have received information that the once all-powerful Palych wants to settle back into his office on Reznitskaya Street?).
It's worth noting that the list of "charges" against its participants includes two: "high-ranking officials during the Yanukovych administration" and "high-ranking officials during the Euromaidan shootings." While the first point seems clear and generally consistent with the provisions of the Law "On the Purification of Authority," how to connect the holding of a high-ranking position to the period of the Euromaidan shootings is unclear. Could it be that the authorities have reached a complete impasse in the investigation of the death of the Heavenly Hundred, and therefore decided to frame the heads of regional ministries and agencies far removed from Kyiv for this crime?
We invite you to review the full list of prosecutorial officials in the form in which it is posted on the Lustration Committee website:
Prosecutor's Office
High-ranking officials during Yanukovych's rule:
Employees of the central office of the GPU
- Tkachenko Alexander Borisovich, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Planning and Financial Activities, Accounting, Reporting, Internal Control and Audit of the Prosecutor General's Office (period: August 31, 2012 – June 25, 2014) - currently holds the above-mentioned position in the Prosecutor General's Office
Lyudmila Viktorovna Erkhova, Head of the Main Directorate of Planning and Financial Activities, Accounting, Reporting, Internal Control and Audit - Chief Accountant of the Prosecutor General's Office (period: August 27, 2012 - June 26, 2014) - currently holds the above-mentioned position in the Prosecutor General's Office - Kucherina Irina Gennadievna Deputy, First Deputy Head of the Main Department for the Protection of Children's Rights and Freedoms of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (period:
- August 29, 2012 – March 29, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Pshonka Viktor Pavlovych, member of the High Council of Justice, Prosecutor General of Ukraine (period: November 4, 2010 – February 22, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Heads of territorial (regional) bodies of the prosecutor's office of Ukraine and their deputies
- High-ranking officials during Yanukovych's rule:
Kyiv: - Beskishkiy Nikolay Grigorievich, prosecutor of the city of Kyiv (period: November 21, 2012 – February 24, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office;
- Nesterenko Alexander Ivanovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: April 19, 2012 – April 22, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Sofiyev Sergey Aleksandrovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: March 10, 2011 – March 10, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Mogilnitsky Maksym Sergeevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: March 10, 2011 – March 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Lupeko Dmitry Alexandrovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: April 8, 2011 – May 21, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
- Beskorovayny Viktor Dmitrievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: February 12, 2008 – December 6, 2012) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Ostafiychuk Grigoriy Vladimirovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: May 14, 2007 – March 9, 2011) – works as Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor – Head of the Investigative Department
- Goran Vadim Arkadievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: August 2, 2006 – September 26, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Shevchenko Viktor Viktorovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: October 24, 2007 – March 9, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Gogol Vladimir Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: January 5, 2005 – October 23, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Molodik Vladimir Viktorovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (period: May 21, 2007 – April 8, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Melnik Anatoly Stepanovich, prosecutor of the city of Kyiv (period: September 20, 2011 – November 20, 2012) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office;
- Ternopil region:
- Banakh Sergey Vladimirovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Ternopil region (period:
October 31, 2012 – March 6, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Chernivtsi region:
- Savin Nikolay Nikolaevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Chernivtsi region (period:
- October 1, 2010 – November 1, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Potseluyko Vitaliy Mykhailovych, First Deputy Prosecutor of Chernivtsi Oblast (period: January 31, 2003 – October 31, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
- Koval Petro Andreevich, prosecutor of Chernivtsi Oblast (period: August 17, 2010 – September 29, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kharkov region:
- Tyurin Gennady Evgenievich, prosecutor of the Kharkiv region (period: July 8, 2010 – February 24, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Khachatryan Sergey Pavlovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kharkiv region (period: February 17, 2005 – December 23, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Povar Alexander Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kharkiv Region (period:
- May 23, 2010 – April 16, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Krivtsov Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kharkiv Region (period: November 11, 2009 – September 3, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office;
- Anpilogov Oleg Viktorovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kharkiv region (period:
- June 17, 2005 – July 10, 2012) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Kirilyuk Alexander Vladimirovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Kharkiv Region (period: November 10, 2010 – December 9, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kyiv region:
- Vityaz Mikhail Ivanovich, prosecutor of the Kyiv region (Period: December 9, 2010 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Kluge Gennady Aleksandrovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Kyiv Region (period: July 22, 2003 – February 27, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Dombrovsky Sergey Vladimirovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kyiv region, (period: May 31, 2012 – March 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Zaporozhye region:
- Pavlov Vyacheslav Vladimirovich, prosecutor of the Zaporizhzhia region (period: June 1, 2010 – December 9, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Mazurik Vladimir Olegovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Zaporizhzhia region (period: October 10, 2002 – June 2, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Elena Anatolyevna Gerus, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Zaporizhzhia Region (period: October 20, 2011 – September 19, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
- Popovich Alexander Vasilievich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Zaporizhzhia region (period: July 13, 2010 – October 20, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Chernihiv region:
- Govorukha Maksym Nikolaevich, prosecutor of the Chernihiv region (period: January 15, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Sedletsky Alexander Alexandrovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Chernihiv region (Period: April 5, 2005 – October 17, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Valery Mikhailovich Grishchenko, Deputy Prosecutor of the Chernihiv Region (Period: December 29, 2005 – September 26, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Solyar Sergey Petrovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Chernihiv Region (Period:
- September 29, 2011 – January 28, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
- Khodyko Evgeny Maksimovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Chernihiv Region (period: June 25, 2001 – August 25, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Khmelnytskyi region:
Golub Yuriy Vladimirovich, prosecutor of the Khmelnytsky region (period: September 27, 2008 – January 15, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Madzyanovsky Andrey Ivanovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Khmelnytsky region (period: March 31, 2008 – November 12, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Lvovsky Mykola Ivanovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Khmelnytskyi region (period: July 21, 2004 – June 21, 2011) — — dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Sumy region:
Belokon Ruslan Anatolyevich, prosecutor of Sumy Oblast (period: March 2, 2012 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Lensky Sergey Vladimirovich, prosecutor of Sumy Oblast (period: June 16, 2010 – December 6, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Mukha Alexander Mikhailovich, Deputy Prosecutor of Sumy Oblast (period: June 27, 2006 – April 29, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kulinich Sergey Anatolyevich, First Deputy Prosecutor of Sumy Oblast (period: July 5, 2005 – October 15, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Cherkasy region:
Demyanenko Gennady Aleksandrovich, prosecutor of the Cherkasy region (period: January 16, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Lesnoy Nikolay Leonidovich, prosecutor of the Cherkasy region (period: February 26, 2010 – January 15, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Movchan Gennady Pavlovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Cherkasy Region (period: May 20, 2003 – December 22, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Lviv region:
Vasilenko Oleg Andreevich, prosecutor of Lviv region (period: March 2, 2012 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Nikolaev region:
Valery Vasilyevich Kotkov, Deputy Prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period: August 31, 2011 – June 20, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Leonid Nikolaevich Kaftanov, Deputy Prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period: January 13, 2005 – June 30, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Galtsov Vladimir Ivanovich, prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period June 15, 2011 – June 2, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Stoyanov Nikolay Stepanovich, prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period June 17, 2005 – June 14, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Ivano-Frankivsk region:
Demyanik Volodymyr Mykhailovych, Deputy Prosecutor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Period: July 30, 2010 – October 20, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
Vityuk Yaroslav Vladimirovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Ivano-Frankivsk region (Period: September 10, 1999 – December 23, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Paraka Andrey Andreevich, prosecutor of the Volyn region (Period: December 7, 2011 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kalifitsky Oleksandr Anatolyevich, Prosecutor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Period: September 29, 2011 – October 1, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
Transcarpathian region:
Rusin Ivan Mykhailovych, Deputy Prosecutor of the Transcarpathian Region (Period: July 19, 2006 – March 2, 2012) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Zhytomyr region:
Marina Stanislavovna Kosovskaya, Deputy Prosecutor of the Zhytomyr Region (period: January 4, 2012 – October 29, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
Sagadin Vladimir Nikolaevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Zhytomyr region (period: August 11, 2004 – January 3, 2012) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Shkuro Valeriy Vladimirovich, prosecutor of Zhytomyr Oblast (period: October 31, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Frantovsky Nikolai Mikhailovich, prosecutor of the Zhytomyr region (period: January 10, 2007 – December 5, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Dnipropetrovsk region:
Marchuk Natalia Vasilievna, prosecutor of the Dnipropetrovsk region (Period: December 10, 2010 – February 26, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Pakhnits Oleg Viktorovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region (Period: February 23, 2011 – May 13, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Volyn region:
Khomich Anatoly Sidorovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Volyn region (period: October 8, 2008 – June 7, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Neverets Valeriy Petrovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Volyn region (period: April 5, 2005 – March 31, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Veselukha Vladimir Aleksandrovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Volyn Region (period: January 19, 2004 – September 5, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Gil Andrey Ivanovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Rivne region (period: December 6, 2011 – March 22, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Vinnytsia region:
Mrikhin Alexander Mikhailovich, prosecutor of Vinnytsia Oblast (period: April 8, 2011 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Shmorgun Oleksandr Yuryevich, prosecutor of Vinnytsia Oblast (period: April 11, 2006 – April 7, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor’s office
Khryapa Oleg Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia region (period: October 11, 2012 – October 22, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Sichuk Vladimir Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia region (period: August 5, 2005 – February 18, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Shishko Petro Fedorovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia region (period: November 28, 2006 – June 7, 2011) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kachur Nikolai Nikolaevich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia Region (period: June 9, 2011 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Rivne region:
Melnik Yuriy Ivanovych, Deputy Prosecutor of the Rivne region (Period: December 18, 2008 – May 14, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Martynenko Ruslan Nikolaevich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Khmelnytskyi Region (period: September 4, 2012 – March 12, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Romanovsky Oleksiy Myronovych, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Rivne Region (period: September 9, 2010 – November 19, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Prisyazhnyuk Vasyl Stepanovych, prosecutor of the Rivne region (period: July 19, 2010 – September 30, 2013) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
High-ranking officials from the time of the Euromaidan shootings:
Kyiv:
Konstantinov Nazar Petrovich, prosecutor of the Goloseevsky district of the city of Kyiv (Period: October 8, 2013 - April 14, 2014) - dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Trofimtsov Vladislav Anatolyevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the City of Kyiv (Period: September 26, 2013 – March 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Chernivtsi region:
Pavlyuk Pavel Vasilievich, prosecutor of Chernivtsi region (Period: September 30, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Luhansk region:
Beseda Sergey Vladimirovich: Deputy Prosecutor of the Luhansk region (Period: January 29, 2013 – January 3, 2015) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Ternopil region:
Yanyuk Vladislav Yuryevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Ternopil region (period: October 10, 2013 – March 25, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kharkov region:
Muravenko Alexander Yuryevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kharkiv region (period: April 16, 2013 – April 9, 2014) – works as a senior prosecutor in the department for supervision of compliance with laws in pre-trial detention facilities
Kyiv region:
Igor Aleksandrovich Protsenko, Deputy Prosecutor of the Kyiv Region (Period: November 21, 2013 – October 23, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Zaporozhye region:
Potocki Dmitry Georgievich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Zaporizhzhia region (Period: September 19, 2013 – March 31, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Khmelnytskyi region:
Brovchuk Mykola Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Khmelnytskyi region (period: June 25, 2013 – December 19, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Timoshchuk Sergey Aleksandrovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Khmelnytskyi region (Period: June 19, 2013 – February 27, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Solyar Sergey Petrovich, prosecutor of the Khmelnytsky region (period: January 28, 2013 – February 26, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Cherkasy region:
Vadim Vyacheslavovich Semenov, Deputy Prosecutor of the Cherkasy Region (period: February 19, 2014 - ) - dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Zaitsev Dmitry Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Cherkasy Region (Period: March 1, 2013 – March 14, 2014)
Nikolaev region:
Zabarchuk Roman Vladimirovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period: June 21, 2013 – April 24, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Popovich Nikolay Anatolyevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period: June 21, 0013 – April 2, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Efimenko Dmitry Konstantinovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period: June 21, 2013 – September 23, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Kurys Andrey Stanislavovich, prosecutor of the Nikolaev region (period: June 3, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Ivano-Frankivsk region:
Polezhaev Alexander Nikolaevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Ivano-Frankivsk region (period: October 7, 2013 – March 13, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Maksimenko Igor Vladimirovich, First Deputy Prosecutor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (period: November 13, 2013 – March 11, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Transcarpathian region:
Mokhoruk Vitaliy Dmitrievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Zakarpattia region (period: December 18, 2013 – March 11, 2014) – works as a prosecutor in the department for supervision of compliance with laws in criminal support of the department for human rights activities, combating corruption and crime in the field of transport of the Main Directorate for the Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens, the Interests of the State, supervision of compliance with laws by special units and other bodies that combat organized crime and corruption of the GPU
Korban Vladimir Viktorovich, prosecutor of the Zakarpattia region (period: June 5, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Zhytomyr region:
Borisenko Sergey Mikhailovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Zhytomyr region (period: October 31, 2013 – April 18, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Ilya Nikolaevich Tolstorebrov, Deputy Prosecutor of the Zhytomyr Region (Period: October 31, 2013 – April 11, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Dnipropetrovsk region:
Shilov Vladimir Dmitrievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Dnipropetrovsk region
(Period: June 4, 2013 – March 13, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Vinnytsia region:
Kozachuk Mykhailo Vasilievich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia region (period: November 21, 2013 – March 25, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Miniv Roman Yuryevich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Vinnytsia region (period: October 28, 2013 – April 2, 2014) - dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Rivne region:
Cherepakha Alexander Mikhailovich, prosecutor of the Rivne region (period: September 30, 2013 – February 28, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Khomich Anatoly Sydorovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Rivne region (period: June 7, 2013 – October 23, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Voronov, Alexey Alexandrovich, Deputy Prosecutor of the Rivne region (period: December 18, 2013 – April 3, 2014) – dismissed from the prosecutor's office
Vasyuk Oleksandr Grigorievich, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Rivne Region (period: Not specified) - dismissed from the prosecutor's office
The list of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Fiscal Service is given below:
Analyzing the "prosecutor's" list, it's worth noting that of its 114 "members," six are active employees of the prosecutor's office. Five of these are employees of the Prosecutor General's Office's central office. These include the aforementioned Lyudmila Yerkhova, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Oleksandr Muravenko, Vitaliy Mokhoruk, and Hryhoriy Ostafiychuk. The current acting prosecutor of Kyiv, Oleg Valendyuk , has also joined this "company." The overwhelming majority of the remaining "list" members either resigned voluntarily before the Euromaidan events erupted in the country or were lustrated in accordance with the Law "On the Purification of Power" last year.
Moreover, the creators of the "Online Registry" are striking in their strange "forgetfulness" regarding the blacklisting of agency leaders appointed by the "post-Maidan government." A look at the "honest and truthful" lustration list, which, according to the project's authors, also contains the names of potential candidates for "purification," reveals that, in particular, the names of former Deputy Prosecutor General Mykola Gerasimyuk, Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios, and even the recently dismissed Kyiv Prosecutor General Serhiy Yuldashev are missing. Apparently, the "lustrators" believed that prosecutors appointed by an "honest and transparent" government could not be lustrated a priori. This is despite the fact that the aforementioned Yuldashev was, in fact, dismissed under a "purification" article.
As we can see from the lists, they include, in addition to prosecutors, employees of other law enforcement agencies. Specifically, the Ministry of Internal Affairs counted 201 "purged" individuals, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) 171, the State Fiscal Service 68, and 28 individuals representing the judicial branch. In total, the Registry, as of the beginning of this month, contains over 750 names. And, as the creators of the "lustration database" assure, this is not the limit. They say the data will be expanded as new information comes in from "conscious citizens." Here, as they say, long live snitching in all its forms! Indeed, the true "European value," according to the logic of the Registry's creators, which Ukrainians fought for during the Euromaidan in late 2013 and early 2014, is...
Presenting this "miracle project," the country's chief public lustrator and member of parliament from the Samopomich party, Yegor Sobolev, noted at the end of last month that this registry is a tool that will help citizens lustrate high-ranking looters "who don't want to leave their posts."
However, Sobolev himself did not explain how the lists included, for example, the name of former Zaporizhia Oblast Governor Oleksandr Peklushenko, who was found dead in his home in mid-March of this year. He had long since left his post, and publishing the information of "dead souls" publicly is, as another Register figure, former Odessa Oblast Prosecutor Mykola Stoyanov, put it on Facebook, "monstrously cynical."
"There aren't enough living people to improve the statistics, so they've started on the dead," Stoyanov emphasized.
Are the creators of the "online registry" "not on friendly terms" with the relevant law?
It's worth noting, however, that the lustration activists themselves blundered due to a basic ignorance of the legal framework. For example, Alexandra Drik, head of the information department of the Public Lustration Committee, publicly declared that the poor volunteers had worked so hard that the registry included not only those officials dismissed in accordance with the requirements of the Law "On the Purification of Power," but also those who resigned voluntarily. This raises a logical question: on what basis, exactly, was the personal data of individuals not covered by the Law "On the Purification of Power" published?
If we look at Article 7, Part 3 of the Law "On the Purification of Power," it states that the following information is included in the Unified State Register of Persons to whom the provisions of the Law of Ukraine "On the Purification of Power" are applied:
— last name, first name, patronymic;
— place of work, position during the period of application of the provisions of this Law;
— information on the conduct of an inspection by a person, as well as information on the receipt of conclusions on the results of the inspection, indicating the existence of grounds for applying to the person who was inspected the prohibitions specified in Article 1 of this Law;
— the period during which the person is subject to the prohibition provided for in part three or four of Article 1 of this Law.
However, in accordance with the Law, this information is not considered confidential and cannot be restricted. However, in this case, we are talking exclusively about the State Register, published on the official website of the Ministry of Justice.
Thus, at first glance, one might conclude that such publication is possible and legal. However, if one examines the online lustration registry, one will notice that it lacks information about the conduct of the audit, the results of the audit, or the period during which the individual is subject to the ban stipulated by Parts 3-4 of Article 1 of the Law "On the Purification of Government."
Furthermore, pursuant to Part 2 of Article 11 of the Law "On Information," the collection, storage, use, and dissemination of confidential information about an individual without their consent is prohibited, except in cases specified by law and only in the interests of national security, economic well-being, and human rights. Confidential information about an individual includes, in particular, information about their nationality, education, marital status, religious beliefs, health status, as well as their address, date, and place of birth.
The creation of a registry of individuals subject to lustration, in addition to the obvious violations of the law, appears all the more absurd given that the Ministry of Justice's lustrators themselves cannot pass the "lice" test.
For example, Tatyana Kozachenko, head of the Ministry's Department of Lustration, has still not passed the lustration audit since November of last year. Perhaps the official is overwhelmed with work lustrating "everyone and everything," or perhaps the owner of three BMWs, two apartments, and a country mansion is afraid of falling into the "hole dug" for other officials.
Against this backdrop, the creation of the Public Lustration Committee's Registry, which includes the names of both former and current officials, appears to be a kind of diversionary tactic, quite possibly overseen by the Ministry of Justice leadership and its head, Pavlo Petrenko ( read more about him in the article "Pavlo Petrenko: The "Pocket" Boy of the Yatsenyuk "Family" ), to distract from the real state of affairs in the area of government cleansing. After all, if the country's chief lustrator, Kozachenko, failed the audit, which has already sparked a flurry of criticism in the media, then one can only assume that other current senior officials have successfully passed similar audits.
Against this backdrop, the average Ukrainian is being presented with a different news story: look, a new registry has appeared. Adding to the appeal for the "rough-and-ready Ukrainian" is the fact that public lustrators plan to increase the number of officials in the registry to 5, as well as include those in power based on financial criteria.
At this rate, any official in the country driving a foreign car and not living in a communal apartment will soon become the subject of intense scrutiny by lustrators, who will exceed the stated 5-person threshold very soon. However, it's unclear who will benefit from the gaping holes in the official income declarations of officials who hastily transferred all their property to their "second cousin's aunt"!
Moreover, the new Registry is an excellent opportunity for the current government to once again get even with its opponents. For example, the aforementioned prosecutor, Nikolai Stoyanov, who won two court cases seeking his reinstatement, risks being forever "forgotten and abandoned" by the Prosecutor General's Office. The pretext for not enforcing the court's decisions is ironclad—after all, he's once again been included in the lustration lists!
True, at the aforementioned presentation of the "Online Registry," Alexandra Drik offered a heartfelt apology, claiming the website was built on credit, thanks to caring IT professionals, and therefore activists would be "grateful for financial assistance" for... Now, attention! Further content for the website. In other words, the representative of the "Public Lustration Committee" transparently hinted that the Registry could be "shut down" at any moment due to lack of funding (read: political expediency). Or perhaps the "lustrators" would take a different approach and "finance" the project themselves—by paying officials to remove their names from the "blacklist" at the urging of informers. Isn't this an example of political pressure on opponents?
In this regard, Prosecutor's Truth has a number of questions:
What principle guided the creators of the "online registry" when creating their "miracle project," which essentially duplicates the functions of the official lustration registry on the Ministry of Justice website? Moreover, the new registry includes both already-lustrated and "unlustrated" officials, which creates a certain amount of confusion in the implementation of the Law "On the Purification of Power." Could it be that this is a kind of website for "snitches," like "Peacemaker"?
— How legal is the creation of an online lustration registry by activists of the public organization "Public Lustration Committee"?
Have the creators of the new lustration registry developed a mechanism for applying the Law on the Purification of Power to those on their "blacklist"? Especially considering the fact that many officials on the registry resigned voluntarily long before the start of 2014?
What were the Public Lustration Committee's activists' motives for adding "dead souls" to the registry, as happened with former Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Oleksandr Peklushenko, and who do the activists plan to begin their "cleansing" with first?
Will the efforts of lustration activists this time yield a truly effective purge of bribe-takers and corrupt officials? Or is the "online registry" just another public distraction designed to divert attention from those within the current government who are targeted for lustration?
Prosecutor's Truth
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