Ukraine: Enhancing the Asset Declaration System for Public Officials

This technical assistance report evaluates Ukraine’s Asset Declaration System (ADS) managed by the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), focusing on its effectiveness in deterring corruption and verifying public officials’ asset declarations. The report finds that while Ukraine’s ADS is one of the largest and most advanced globally, it faces significant challenges related to the overwhelming volume of declarations, limited institutional capacity, and gaps in access to critical financial data, especially cross-border information. The adoption of a risk-based approach has improved targeting and detection rates, but structural constraints and legal loopholes remain. Key issues include insufficient inter-agency cooperation, and legislative gaps in lifestyle monitoring and sanctions. To enhance the ADS’ effectiveness and sustainability, the report recommends recalibrating the declarant population to focus on verification on high-level and high-risk officials in corruption-vulnerable sectors (e.g., state-owned enterprises, customs and public procurement). Complementary reforms should also strengthen legal frameworks for lifestyle monitoring and sanctions, improve access to foreign financial data, enhance inter-agency cooperation, and shift performance metrics toward impact-oriented indicators to improve the system’s deterrence and enforcement capabilities.