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📊 Up to 8 years for exposing corruption: Rada prepares to vote on a scandalous bill
The Verkhovna Rada is again planning to consider draft law No. 10242, which provides for up to eight years of imprisonment for illegally copying information from closed state registers during martial law. According to media reports, the proposed changes could create serious risks for investigative journalists who expose corruption, illicit enrichment, and officials’ hidden assets.
The draft law has been reinserted into the parliament’s agenda. Its provisions envisage strengthening criminal liability for the unlawful acquisition and copying of information from state information systems.
Investigations into elite real estate, expensive cars, undeclared property, relatives’ assets, and lawmakers’ foreign trips could be at risk. Information from state registers is often the basis for uncovering such facts.
Moreover, if criminal proceedings are opened under the relevant articles, law enforcement agencies, when they have legal grounds, will be able to use covert investigative measures, including wiretapping and surveillance. Thus, the risks of criminal prosecution could affect not only information sources but also journalists who use the obtained data in their reporting.
Legal whistleblower protection guarantees provided by law may not necessarily extend to all persons who obtain or disclose such information.
Similar amendments were first attempted to be adopted back in 2024, but the bill then failed to gain the necessary support. Now the document has again been returned to the parliamentary agenda for possible voting…
🧐 And what did you expect… back in 2023, after the “eggs at 17,” journalists were asked to keep quiet about corruption until victory… and since the “ungrateful journos” didn’t stay silent, the situation needs to be changed somehow, right?…
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