Sixty-one candidates allowed taking part in competition for positions at Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation

Sixty-one candidates have been allowed to take part in the competition for positions of the director of the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine, the first deputy and deputy director of the State Bureau of Investigation, directors of territorial bodies and heads of departments of the central apparatus of the State Bureau of Investigation, the staff of the internal control departments of the State Bureau of Investigation.

As the Human Rights Information Centre correspondent reports, the decision was made by the competition commission on July 21.

The commission selected 61 candidates from among 82 applicants who submitted documents for participation in the competition. Eighteen candidates were not allowed to take part in the competition. Decision on another three candidates was postponed until the next meeting.

The approved candidates, in particular, include expert and participant in many UN missions Iryna Nezhynska, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine – Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios, Head of the Main Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Vovk.

The candidacies of Kyrylo Kulykov, the MP and chief adviser on combating corruption at the International Centre for Policy Studies, and Serhiy Horbatiuk, the Head of the Special Investigations Department at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, were rejected.

Taras Hataliak, the human rights activist, the coordinator of the initiative of attorneys of the families of the Heavenly Hundred at the OPORA civil network, considers Horbatiuk, who now investigates the crimes against Maidan, to be one of the strongest candidates.

“Serhiy Horbatiuk, the Head of the Special Investigations Department at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, was not allowed to take part in the competition. Horbatiuk has more than 22 years of experience in the field of law, he has been holding senior positions for more than 11 years, working at the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. The reason for his non-admission was that Serhiy Horbatiuk allegedly had not enough experience at senior positions (five years are required) and four members of the committee voted in favor of non-admission, two abstained. The question arises why the commission has made such a decision and has not allowed one of the strongest candidates to take part in the competition?” Hataliak wrote on Facebook.