The Law on the High Anti-Corruption Court took effect on 14 June, today. The accelerated adoption of that law has showed that Ukraine in good faith complies with the conditions imposed by the EU. However, would such urgency become an obstacle to the effective introduction of the Court, wouldn’t it? Could it be nothing but another profanation and smoke and mirrors for the EU and the IMF?

Anti-corruption courts have been introduced and operate in five countries only, and none of such countries is in Europe. The first of those courts was established in the Philippines. Senegal has also positive experience with its anti-corruption court: The country improved its score on the Corruption Perception Index from 94 to 64 over seven years of operation of the anti-corruption court. Just compare: Ukraine’s score is 130.

The enacted law is primarily technical given that it governs the mechanism of creation of the Court and the organisation of its operation. There is plenty of new procedures and new entities are involved in the process…

To learn more about whether Ukraine will manage to make this vision a reality, please read the entire article authored by Olena Drozdova for Law & Business newspaper.