Особливості організаційно-правового статусу Спеціалізованої антикорупційної прокуратури

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the problems of organizational and legal status of the Specialized Anti-CorruptionProsecutor’s Office.The purpose of the scientific article is to clarify certain features of the organization of the Specialized Anti-CorruptionProsecutor’s Office in order to improve its organizational and legal status and to establish a place in the prosecutionsystem.A comparative analysis of the legal status of the anti-corruption bodies of the prosecutor’s office in certain Europeanstates was carried out. It is established that the anti-corruption specialization of the prosecutor’s office can exist eitherin the organizational form of separate structural units within the territorial prosecutor’s offices or in the organizationalform of separate anti-corruption bodies of the prosecutor’s office.The structure and system of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which is an independent structuralunit of the Office of the Attorney General, is defined. The structure of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Officeincludes the central apparatus and territorial branches. Territorial branches of the Specialized Anti-CorruptionProsecutor’s Office are created and operate locally, but their organizational and legal status is not clearly regulated. The place of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office in the prosecution system of Ukraine was established.The views of researchers on the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office as a separate specialized subsystem ofthe Prosecutor’s Office, which consists of two links (levels) of the Prosecutor’s Office, have been developed.Proposals to improve the organizational and legal status of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office areformulated. It is proposed to determine the central office of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office as anindependent structural unit of the Office of the General Prosecutor, and its territorial branches – at the level of regionalprosecutors.