Lifestyle Monitoring: International Practice Review and Potential for Application in Ukraine
Publisher: UNDP
Volume: 32 pages, pdf
Description:
The Ukrainian Law on Prevention of Corruption adopted on 14 October 2014 envisages a number of innovative instruments for countering corruption in the country. Amongst other things, the Law’s Section VII, “Financial Control”, envisages instruments that allow benchmarking the actual civil servant’s lifestyle against his or her declared earnings. One of such instruments is the so-called “lifestyle monitoring” which is envisaged by the Law in Article 51. Keeping in mind that peculiarities of instrument application are largely left to the discretion of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), the purpose of this analytical brief is to highlight the existing international practices of lifestyle monitoring and, based on examples available, suggest recommendations for Ukraine.