Overview

• Draft restores full procedural powers and formal independence of NABU and SAP after their subordination to the prosecutor’s office.
• It mandates regular lie-detector tests for all state employees with access to secrets to prevent foreign infiltration.
• Zelensky has invited German and British experts to assess the revised law against Western anti-corruption standards.
• The Verkhovna Rada remains in summer recess until mid-August, with no vote date set for the corrected bill.
• The overhaul follows three days of mass protests by thousands demanding the preservation of anti-corruption agencies’ autonomy.