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The President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, signed the new Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine that had been adopted by the Parliament on April 13, 2012. Newly adopted legislative act will substitute the previous Code of Criminal Procedure of 1960 (as amended up to date) and will enter into force in six months (on November 20, 2012). The new Code is aimed at improvement of the criminal procedural rules and effective protection of the rights of the participants in criminal proceedings, in particular by introducing the adversarial principal already to the pre-trial stage of such proceedings. It means that both the prosecution and the defence shall have equal rights in standing their legal positions and in exercising of their procedural rights. In general, the new Code brings many changes to the recent procedural rules and provides for a number of innovations. Among other things, the new Code introduces: (1) cancellation of such procedural stage as commencement of the criminal matter and remodelling of the pre-trial phase; (2) jury trial; (3) new preventive measure such as a house arrest; (4) new procedural deadlines; (5) conduct of the interrogation and identification through videoconference, etc. The Code also introduces such notion as “criminal offenses” (in addition to “crimes”) and a possibility for simplified procedure of their consideration (where the court may render a decision without participation of the parties). In addition, the Code adopts the possibility to execute a criminal reconciliation (settlement) agreement between a victim and a suspect or an accused and also an agreement on pleading guilty with the prosecution. It shall be also noted that adoption of the new Code resulted in introduction of the respective changes to numerous legislative acts, most of which will come into effect along with the new Code.
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The next Working Group Session of UNCITRAL Working Group V on Insolvency will be held at the United Nations facility in New York on April 30, 2012, through May 4, 2012. FraudNet member for the ||USA|| ||Christopher J. Redmond||, of || Husch Blackwell LLP, Kansas City||, will be attending the session as a member of the United States Delegation. Discussion will include definition of Centre of Main Interests (COMI) and Collective Proceedings, as well as Directors' obligations in the period approaching insolvency, and the setting up of an online annotation system, as a supplement to the Guide to Enactment. Click here for UNCITRAL’s page with material for the session. Visit our Resources and Publications pages for material on the same topics: Cross-Border Insolvency, Director & third party liability (from FraudNet member for the ||USA|| ||Christopher J. Redmond||, of ||Husch Blackwell LLP, Kansas City||).
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The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has recently adopted the decision by which it confirmed the lawfulness of the changes made to the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine (Article 218) with regard to review of the criminal case files by the accused person and his/her criminal defense attorney. Among other things, the Constitutional Court emphasized that the accused person and his/her criminal defense attorney can not be limited in time while reviewing the criminal case file; however, if it becomes evident that such review is aimed at deliberate delay of the criminal proceedings, the investigator upon approval of the prosecutor or the prosecutor has the right to request the court to determine the term for review of the criminal case files. This court decision could be further appealed by the prosecutor, the accused or his/her criminal defense attorney within three days from the day when such decision was rendered.
By law, the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine is final and obligatory for execution on the whole territory of Ukraine.
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On December 13, 2011, the President of Ukraine has signed the Law on Amendments to Certain Legislation Acts on Humanization of Responsibility for Economic Crimes, which became effective since January 18, 2012. This Law, among other things, establishes decriminalization of particular economic crimes by changing them to the administrative offences that now are to be envisaged by the Code on Administrative Offences of Ukraine. More specifically, the crimes removed from the Criminal Code of Ukraine include, inter alia, avoidance of the profit return obtained in a foreign currency, illegal opening or using the foreign currency accounts abroad, concealment of financial insolvency, fictitious bankruptcy etc.
The Law also substituted criminal sanctions (i.e. imprisonment) for committing particular economic crimes with fines. This, in particular, relates to the following crimes: illegal activities with documents for money transfer, payment cards and other means required to access the bank accounts; tax evasion; illegal disclosure of information constituting the commercial and bank secrecy; fictitious business activities etc.
The Law also introduces changes to some procedural rules applied in criminal proceedings (i.e. detention, preventive measures, etc).
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