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Meanwhile, the Agency has been without a head for more than a year.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Koretsky announced the start of a competition for the position of head of the National Asset Recovery and Management Agency, ARMA, which handles assets obtained from corruption and other crimes.
He stated that the agency needs a leader whom both society and partners can trust, and added that the competition would be open and transparent.
“I invite all who have managerial experience, impeccable reputation, and a desire to contribute to their country to participate,” Koretsky wrote.
The decision to re-advertise the ARMA head competition was made at a meeting of the competition commission on 19 October.
The reception of documents from candidates — lawyers and economists who meet legal requirements — will run from 26 October to 26 November 2026 of the year.
The commission also updated a number of procedural documents, such as the regulation, the procedure for conducting the competitive selection, and the criteria and methodologies for evaluating candidates. Candidates were also allowed to submit a certificate of proficiency in the state language throughout the selection process, but no later than 3 days before the interview.
The scoring system also changed — candidates will not be screened out at the knowledge test stage for legislation, but only after testing cognitive abilities. Only those who score higher than 55 on the cognitive test will advance to the next stage. Based on the results of both tests, a ranking list will be formed, and the points will be distributed as follows: 40% will be the results of cognitive skills checks, 60% — knowledge of the legislation.
ARMA has been led by acting head since 30 July 2025 of the year, when former head Olena Duma resigned after two years with the Agency.
The competition announced after her dismissal attracted 20 candidates, including acting head Yaroslav Maksymenko, but after the second stage only one candidate remained — Viktor Dubovyk, who until 2024 year headed the Ministry of Justice’s anti-raiding office and had previously participated in the competition for the head of the BEE. However, in April 2026 year the Competition Commission did not support the appointment — four of six members supported his candidacy, but only one representative of international organizations instead of the required two. Others rejected him due to concerns about the origin of some of Dubovyk’s assets, and his “superficial answers.”
Although ARMA is chasing assets at record speeds, much of the assets found are lost after seizure, transfer for management, and sale, and public reporting does not provide an answer at which stage this happens. Analysts Svetlana Gordienko and Taras Ryabchenko of the Institute of Legislative Ideas, in the article “Assets Found for Billions, but No One Knows Where They Are — Two Years of ARMA Reform,” examined why, after two years of reform, the state has failed to create a transparent system for managing seized property of corrupt actors and their accomplices to aggression.
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