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The European Union, anti-corruption organizations, and participants in the “cardboard protests” are demanding that the State Bureau of Investigation be reformed — the agency that investigates crimes by top officials, law enforcement officers, and military personnel. The SBI is criticized for its involvement in last year’s attack on anti-corruption bodies, the prosecution of opponents and critics of the authorities — including Petro Poroshenko and Vitaliy Shabunin — and the recent searches of the drone manufacturer Vyriy, which is owned by a principal co-owner of the independent media outlet Babel.
As early as January, Zelensky instructed that a presidential bill to update the SBI be prepared within a month and promptly submitted to parliament. That has not happened yet. And reform of the bureau is a mandatory condition for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union.
Suspilne explains how the SBI was created and what functions it is assigned, who and how is proposing to renew the agency, and why and because of whom the reform is stalled.
