{"id":252000,"date":"2025-07-09T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252000\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T23:35:10","slug":"kyiv-spurns-suggested-head-of-economic-crimes-bureau-setting-up-clash-with-western-partners-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252000\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv spurns suggested head of economic crimes bureau, setting up clash with Western partners \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

But on Monday the government announced it would not appoint<\/a> Tsyvinskyi to the position and instead asked the commission to pick two other candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Civil society groups and lawmakers say the government\u2019s actions are illegal, threaten the independence of law enforcement, and jeopardize international aid \u2014 just as Ukrainian officials head from Kyiv to Rome to tout the country\u2019s reforms and plead for more funding at a major recovery conference.<\/p>\n

The cabinet, which is led by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, cited \u201cnational security\u201d concerns regarding Tsyvinskyi, whose father is Russian. Tsyvinskyi, who has held a security clearance<\/a> for over a decade and was cleared again during the selection process, says he hasn\u2019t spoken with his father in years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even Anastasia Radina, an independent-minded lawmaker from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s Servant of the People party who leads the anti-corruption committee in the country\u2019s parliament, wrote on social media<\/a> that the government had no legal authority to reject the commission\u2019s pick.<\/p>\n

The government did not immediately respond to a request by POLITICO for comment, but in announcing its decision claimed it \u201cfully corresponded\u201d with the law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But critics of the government\u2019s move said Zelenskyy had in fact opposed Tsyvinskyi\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But on Monday the government announced it would not appoint Tsyvinskyi to the position and instead asked the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[1442,2575,2000,299,2003,5111,332,657,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-252000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-competition","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-law-enforcement","13":"tag-parliament","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114825902447226034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}