Lack of protection guarantees may prevent an inflow of investment in Ukraine after the war - analytics

Most in the last seven years. It was about illegal arrests or seizure of property from economic entities, the interference of law enforcement officers on the side of one of the parties, delaying or refusing to open criminal proceedings, failure to comply with reasonable investigations, failure to comply with investigative judges, etc.

In total, from the moment of its foundation, from 2015 to the third quarter of 2021, the Business Subsman received 596 business complaints about the pressure of the National Pressure. Another thousand - for the rest of the law enforcement agencies (prosecutor's office, tax, SBU and the Ministry of Internal Affairs). The situation did not change in 2022. According to lawyers, even a completely white business can be searched.

"Competitors and other detractors, including law enforcement agencies, can artificially create problems. Namely - conditions for entering information in the Unified Register "Carrying out operational and search activities. The purpose of such actions may be different: from intimidation of the victim to the ownership of its assets, corporate rights or termination of economic activity,"-quotes the publication of Yevgeny Grushovts, a partner of criminal practice of ARIO LAW FIRM.

Lawyers note that "masks-shows" about business this year have become more frequent and associated with the fact that law enforcement officers have received wider powers because of the war in Ukraine. "On the one hand, this is quite logical, since police, SBU, DBR and other bodies need to respond promptly to offenses . . . On the other - the expansion of their powers can be used "Denis Ovcharova, a partner of Legal House.

In a number of cases, unscrupulous law enforcement agencies can use a war factor for their corruption purposes, playing people's emotions and speculatively using the terms "betrayal" and "connections with Russia" in relation to any business, and especially with foreign investments. At the same time, society has great claims against law enforcement officers in terms of lack of mass search and arrest in Ukraine really toxic business assets from Russia.

For example, in September, the head of the Corruption Center Vitaly Shabunin stated that the NSDC has been saving the Putin oligarch Rothenberg's wealth for two months. The court unlocked bank accounts of its companies and then canceled the seizure of 20 real estate objects, including Ocean Plaza shopping mall.

In September, the mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovy, commenting on searches by law enforcement officers from the activist and volunteer Svyatoslav Litinsky, published a list of more than 340 businesses in Lviv belonging to the Russians. He recommended law enforcement officers to do them, not volunteers. Earlier, the economy Yulia Sviridenko at the meeting of the Ministers of Economics of the G7 countries noted that the key to investors is the security of investment in Ukraine.