Odesa Ranks Third in Ukraine for Number of Corrupt Officials
Odesa ranked third in Ukraine in terms of the number of individuals included in the Register of Corrupt Officials in 2023. In our region, there were 181 corrupt officials identified. Leading in this ranking are Lviv region (192) and Kyiv region (188), according to the data from «Opendatabot».
Overall in Ukraine, 2.4 thousand corrupt officials were registered, which is almost three times less than in 2021 when there were about 7 thousand. The main reason for inclusion in the register was offering benefits for actions or inaction in government.
Over the past three years, Lviv region has become the leader in the number of sentences handed down — 537 in 2021 and 192 in 2023.
In 2021, the main violations were deficiencies in declarations, accounting for 75.9% of all sentences. In 2023, the share of such cases decreased to 1.6%. This is due to the fact that since the beginning of the war, the NAPC did not check the declarations of officials, and the submission of declarations was not mandatory.
