On 30th
June 2010 representative of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands Kingdom
Marcel Broekhuis came to the MainCRO
within the expert mission to spread the experience of counties of the European
Union regarding detection of the fraud and fight against it. Officers of the MainCRO received the opportunity to communicate with the
main expert due to the instrument of the European Commission TAIEX.
Director
of the Department of Organizational Operations Serhiy
Chornutskiy opened the meeting and pointed out that
since today Ukraine reached a new stage of
relations with EU, namely the stage of negotiation process concerning signing
of an Association Agreement between Ukraine and EU, one of aims of which is to
develop and to take efficient measures for prevention and fight against
financial machinations (fraud) and a leading role in Ukraine in this sphere
belongs to the MainCRO and according to the legislation in force it performs
the main control function over saving public resources in Ukraine, therefore
gaining of experience from the European experts in the sphere of protection of
financial interests is an acute task.
Study of opened matters will not only bring Ukraine
closer to European legislation but also will become an efficient instrument in
implementation of the Neighbourhood Relations Policy,
as well as will assist to develop the efficient administrative capability of
prevention of financial machinations and other violations in financial-budget
sphere.
In the course of his presentation Holland
expert Marcel Broekhuis covered peculiarities of the notion of the fraud,
presented the history of introduction of bodies for fight against fraud in the Netherlands Kingdom, covered specific of their
activity, forms and types of their work. The special attention of participants
was paid to matters of detection of the fraud in countries of the European
Union and methods of fight against it and also responsibility for crimes related
to the fraud.
While communicating at the round table participants found much
in common and differences in everyday work of bodies, authorized to investigate
matters of financial machinations (fraud).
Summing up, Director of the Legal Department Andriy Popov
expressed gratitude to the expert for his presentation and knowledge which were
shared with Ukrainian colleagues and emphasized on the actuality of such meetings
for Ukraine
and their utility especially in the transition period.