Corruption risks in procedures for receiving humanitarian aid under martial law

Abstract

The article is devoted to the coverage and analysis of corruption risks and operational deficiencies that arise at various levels of the state's work with humanitarian aid, as well as the search for ways to improve the effectiveness of the mechanism for providing humanitarian aid, minimize the sources of risks, and eliminate the prerequisites for corruption.
 It was noted that since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of independent Ukraine from February 24, 2022, our country has faced an urgent problem of providing humanitarian aid1 to the military and civilian population, in particular internally displaced persons.
 Given the critical importance of this direction of state policy and
 information about the problems that accompany the processes of providing humanitarian aid, there was a need to research the specified problems.
 The article focuses on how the processes of providing humanitarian aid are implemented in practice during martial law.
 A number of corruption risks and operational deficiencies at various stages of receiving humanitarian aid were identified and characterized.
 It turns out that at the stage of customs clearance of humanitarian cargo there are risks: -satisfaction of private interests by officials of the State Customs Service of Ukraine; - abuse by officials whose competence is to make a decision on the forced alienation or seizure of property under the conditions of the legal regime of martial law, in order to satisfy the private interests of one's own or third parties; - import of commercial goods into the customs territory of Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid, etc.
 The article not only lists the procedures and stages of receiving humanitarian aid, analyzes real and potential corruption risks, but also provides suggestions for minimizing corruption risks in the procedures for receiving humanitarian aid under martial law.