
PM urges Parliament to adopt a law on special confiscation next week
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has called on
people's deputies of Ukraine to include in the agenda and to consider a
Government bill on special confiscation that will lead to return to the Budget
$ 1.5 billion stolen by officials. This was stated by Volodymyr
Groysman speaking during an hour of questions to the
Government at the Parliament on Friday.
"I would ask people's deputies
of Ukraine once again gather together, conduct a workshop; find those
compromise that will allow you to restore justice. I believe that this task is a
priority No. 1. So I'd like to ask to work for that next week either on Tuesday
or Thursday to finally vote the Law and to enable law enforcement system to
restore fairness to the Ukrainian people," - Volodymyr
Groysman said.
The Prime Minister noted that the
Government and he personally had repeatedly expressed thier
position regarding the funds that were stolen from the Ukrainian people in the amount
of $ 1.5 billion.
"The Government has clearly
expressed its position; it voted and passed the draft Law on special
confiscation to the Ukrainian Parliament. We did it on Tuesday", - he
reminded.
"I address once again to the
Ukrainian Parliament that this Law will be included in the agenda and will be
voted to the funds that were stolen from the Ukrainian people, will be returned
to the national budget, - said the Prime Minister. - We need to return these
resources. And we need to do this in a legislative way to do that according to
the practice of European countries".
Volodymyr Groysman
also said that the Government cannot unilaterally dispose of these resources.
"These funds will be publicly transferred
to the account of the state, and then the Ukrainian Parliament has made a decision on
priority," he said.