New cases against business to be approved only by heads of regional prosecutors' offices – PM
The government will submit to the Verkhovna Rada draft laws on business protection and reform of regulatory bodies, these will be amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and other legislative and by-laws, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said after a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council on Monday.
"Only the Prosecutor General or heads of regional prosecutors' offices will be able to approve new cases. Seizures of property and documents will be canceled if they harm the work of the enterprise," she wrote on Facebook.
Svyrydenko added that "pending" cases without evidence will be closed.
The Prime Minister confirmed the President's earlier announcement that the National Security and Defense Council had decided to impose a moratorium on business inspections by law enforcement, customs, tax, and other regulatory bodies.
"What we are changing: control will be spot-on — only where there are really high risks; we are digitizing the state supervision system so that manual intervention becomes impossible," she described the main changes.
According to Svyrydenko, the prosecutor's office and law enforcement agencies are already conducting an audit of open cases against entrepreneurs, and according to its results, 30% of these proceedings have already been closed.