© Bureau of Economic Security Under current conditions, according to the new head of the BEB, when looking for a magician for the bureau, you can only find a storyteller.
The Bureau of Economic Security does not have the exclusive right to investigate economic crimes, and therefore the question of the Bureau's existence is in limbo. What needs to happen in the Bureau to make it clear that it is really needed, its director Oleksandr Tsyvinsky told ZN.UA in an interview with Inna Vedernikova and Yulia Samayeva.
“Let’s move from technical to key. Technically, a body must be formed that employs four thousand trained specialists capable of investigating economic crimes. That is, with this set of personnel, the question will remain only one — subjectivity. Which — attention! — is largely determined by law exclusively for the Bureau of Economic Security. Therefore, I am convinced: as soon as we achieve personnel capacity, then this will be a matter exclusively for the Prosecutor General’s Office. Because prosecutors determine economic subjectivity and make decisions on transferring cases to other bodies ,” Tsyvinsky noted.
Now, according to him, there is a sense in transferring cases to other bodies. After all, the Bureau does not have its own representative offices in all regions of Ukraine. However, the Prosecutor General, Tsyvinsky adds, has already spoken about this problem at a coordination meeting, so this issue must be resolved.
“I will say more: today, the BEB has proven such financial indicators of the budget that do not provide for either the recruitment of additional people or financial equality with other law enforcement agencies, which is established by law, so that we compete with creativity, intelligence and team spirit, so that we can attract high-quality specialists. The BEB budget does not provide for any sufficient capital expenditures either for building a separate unified information system or for building an institution in general,” Tsyvinsky noted.
Therefore, according to him, with such an approach, the effective existence of the BEB as an institution that can work according to the new philosophy is under threat . Tsyvinsky noted that in the current conditions, when searching for a magician for the Bureau, only a storyteller can be found.
” That is, in order for the BEB to fully cover its investigative scope and show a completely different format of work, the government needs to: implement the law, provide the funding that is necessary for the BEB according to the law, no more, no less . Then, I think, no sooner than in a year and a half, we will conduct a re-certification of the BEB employees, select the main personnel potential and begin to assume that all the investigative scope that is under our control will be investigated by specialized employees according to the new philosophy,” Tsyvinsky added.
As a reminder, on August 6 – after a scandal that lasted a month and a half – the government finally appointed Oleksandr Tsyvinsky as the director of the Bureau of Economic Security. The competition commission elected Tsyvinsky as the director of the BEB back on June 24. But on July 7 it became known that the government decided to reject this decision. After some time, the commission re-submitted the corresponding candidacy – allegedly, Tsyvinsky fully meets the requirements stipulated by the law – and stopped working.
Martyna Bohuslavets, the head of the Anti-Corruption Center “Border”, said that the OP prevented the appointment of any of the two representatives of the newly independent NABU as the director of the BEB, although these candidates had the least questions about their integrity. In her article “They are trying to disrupt the competition for the selection of the BEB director through the courts,” Bohuslavets analyzed the scheme to block the long-awaited reboot of the bureau.
