The Government has decided to establish interregional territorial offices of the National Agency for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA). This will allow ARMA to perform its basic functions and powers, defined by the Special Law, more comprehensively and fully.
The Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on “Some issues of ensuring the activities of the National Agency for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes”, prepared by ARMA, was adopted on October 3 at the meeting of the Government.
According to the document, it is planned to establish six interregional territorial offices of ARMA, whose powers will be extended to several administrative-territorial units, namely:
- The Western Interregional Territorial Office with its location in Lviv, which will unite Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne and Ternopil regions;
- The Southern Interregional Territorial Office with its location in Odesa, which will unite Kirovograd, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol;
- The South-Eastern Interregional Territorial Office with its location in Dnipro, which will unite Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions;
- The North-Eastern Interregional Territorial Office with its location in Kharkiv, which will unite Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltava regions;
- The Central Interregional Territorial Office with its location in Kyiv, which will unite Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernihiv regions, as well as the Kyiv region and the city of Kyiv;
- The Central-West Interregional Territorial Office with its location in Vinnytsia, which will unite Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi regions.
The Resolution also regulates the issue of proper provision of their activities.
