KYIV – The Verkhovna Rada passed another bill to complete the architecture of establishing a separate court to prosecute corrupt public officials on June 21, but failed to revise clauses that make it possible for graft cases to skirt the judiciary body.
Choosing to vote for creating the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) in its entirety, instead of the optional two readings, 256 lawmakers voted in favor of President Petro Poroshenko’s bill.