UAH 3.8 million — the amount of refusals from offers of ill-gotten gains in 2023
Today, the world celebrates the International Day Against Corruption. Prevention and counteraction of corruption remains one of the priority vectors of the activity of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. To this end, this year the department adopted a new Anti-Corruption Program of the State Border Service of Ukraine for 2023-2025.
During the current year, 438 attempts to provide illegal benefits to border guards in the amount of about 3 877 204 UAH were stopped. In total, since the beginning of the legal regime of martial law, 858 such attempts were recorded for the amount of more than 8 million 800 thousand UAH. In most cases, attempts to bribe law enforcement officers were made by men of conscription age who intended to leave the territory of Ukraine without proper documents, but there were other cases.
166 servicemen who showed zero tolerance to corruption were rewarded with awards and cash prizes totaling UAH 374,700 during the year for refusing illegal benefits.
Instead, unscrupulous border guards who are involved in the violation of anti-corruption legislation are brought to justice in all confirmed cases in accordance with the procedure established by law. Identification of pseudo law enforcement officers who are tasty for “easy money” became possible, including thanks to the active work of the internal and own security units of the State Border Guard Service.
Since the beginning of the year, 29 facts of possible violations by the personnel of the border department of anti-corruption legislation have been identified. 24 servicemen were detained for abuse of office and promotion of illegal activities at the border.
15 border guards were found guilty of committing corruption offences and brought to criminal responsibility. The court decision imposes penalties in the form of fines in the amount of more than 1 million 200 thousand hryvnias. In 4 cases, border guards were brought to administrative responsibility for committing crimes related to corruption and fines of about 15 thousand hryvnias were imposed.
In order to increase the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures, since September of this year, the State Border Guard Service was one of the first state agencies to be connected to the Unified Portal of Whistleblower Messages. Also, for this purpose, the department has provided measures for the timely declaration of the specified category of personnel of the State Border Guard Service.
The fight against corruption begins with each of us!
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
