Draft Law No. 2740 Submitted for Consideration to Verkhovna Rada

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24.01.2020

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Draft Law No. 2740, better known as “Ski-Masked Raid Stop-3”, developed by experts from IT Ukraine, the Supreme Court of Ukraine and scientists, was submitted for consideration to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on January 15. One of the people’s deputies who initiated the bill was Kira Rudyk, the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Digital Transformation.

The document provides for amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine for protection of IT businesses from abuse by law enforcement agencies, in particular, ungrounded searches, seizure of servers and other equipment owned by entrepreneurs.

Why is this Draft Law so important? There has not been a single court judgement against IT companies in the years of independence of Ukraine! There has just been a corruption scheme: the seizure of equipment and “bargaining” to return it. Therefore, there is a need to finally balance the lame “one-way street” practice and prosecute investigators and prosecutors for intentional violations of the search procedure. Figuratively speaking, law enforcement officers do not even understand that they put their hands in pockets of every Ukrainian. To improve living standards in Ukraine, people of the country must earn more! However, the first thing a foreign investor sees when deciding on Ukraine is information on Bloomberg about a search in a public IT company, the purpose of which was far from being “counter-terrorism efforts”. Ultimately, it turns out that the information could have been simply requested, without the need to come with 30 armed people…”,