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How the SBI should actually work and what needs to change for that to happen?
143 the apartment of the SBI director’s brother, participation in the attack on NABU and SAP, cases against critics of the authorities, and ignoring beatings in the army — the SBI has “become famous” for all of this in just the past year.
Since its inception, the SBI has been plagued by scandals and criticism. The first head, Roman Truba, was then, in 2016, chosen in a political competition, which systematically led to the SBI’s ineffectiveness.
The current head of the SBI, Oleksii Sukhachov, reaches the end of his term this year. The second director, also beholden to the president, has shown the same “achievements” — ineffective work and persecution of the “undesirables.”
Therefore, to join the European Union we must reform the SBI with an independent competition for the head that includes international experts.
This is exactly what the EU demands, but the authorities are ignoring it and trying to drag things out until the end of the year to appoint a new hand-picked director under the old competition, and only after that — vote on the reform.
Suspilne in its article lays out in detail the history of the agency’s creation: what it was intended to be and what it became.
Despite the SBI’s disagreement, Sukhachov’s complaints that the requirement to reform before EU accession is manipulation and a “suggestive influence,” the article’s author, Oleksii Arunyan, also emphasizes the Europeans’ demands.
The demands are not only to carry out the reform, but to select a new director in an independent competition with international members on the commission.
Read more about the reform of the SBI and how the Ukrainian authorities are resisting it at: https://suspilne.media/1368624-reforma-derzavnogo-buro-rozsliduvan-odna-z-vimog-dla-vstupu-ukraini-v-es-so-ne-tak-iz-dbr-i-ak-ce-zminiti/
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