Ukraine's NACP Automated Verification — Risk-Screening Over a Million Officials' Asset Declarations

Since 2016, Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP/NAZK) has required senior public officials to file electronic asset and interest declarations in a public Register. NACP says it was one of the first countries in the world to introduce automated bulk risk analysis of these declarations, cross-checking declared assets against the State Demographic Register, State Register of Real Rights, State Land Cadastre, Unified State Register of Vehicles and other official databases.

On 27 December 2023, NACP Deputy Head Artem Sytnyk announced that the agency's new automated-verification tool would begin covering the full backlog of 1,050,000+ declarations filed for 2021 and 2022 (578,700 for 2021 and 471,700 for 2022, per NACP's own count on 20 December 2023). Declarations receiving the lowest risk rating — roughly a third of the total, by NACP's own estimate — are cleared through automated software checks within one to six weeks; the remaining, higher-risk declarations go to full manual verification by NACP staff.

NACP defines discrepancy thresholds in law: differences up to 100 subsistence minimums (268,400 UAH in 2023; 302,800 UAH in 2024) are treated as "inaccurate information," while larger gaps are treated as "false information" that can trigger referral for investigation. Sytnyk stressed that "receiving a certificate of auto-verification will not mean that the declaration has been fully verified but will indicate that it has a minimal risk factor" — an explicit caveat that automated clearance is a triage step, not a guarantee of integrity.

Read the full analysis: https://nazk.gov.ua/en/news/all-submitted-declarations-will-be-covered-by-the-nacp-due-to-a-new-automated-verification-tool-artem-sytnyk/