Up to 8 years in prison for copying data from registers: Instead of EU anti-corruption laws, the Council is preparing punishments for investigative journalists, - in fact, the Verkhovna Rada plans to consider draft law No. 10242, which stipulates up to 8 years in prison for using data from the state registry during martial law. This would actually allow investigative journalists who expose the illegal enrichment of officials to be deprived. Vitaly Shabonin, head of the Communist Party of Ukraine, writes about this on Facebook. "Instead of anti-corruption laws, according to which the European Union gives money to Ukraine, Zelensky's deputies want to vote tomorrow to jail journalists who write about their wealth," he notes. "From the notebooks, journalists learn about elite apartments of relatives of officials, trips of people's deputies to the Russian Federation and fortunes that cannot be earned with a deputy's salary. A journalist can become an "accomplice", and his source - a criminal. 8 years is already a serious crime, that is wiretapping and surveillance on both (both the journalist and the source)," Shabonin adds. And we are on Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik-Tok, YouTube.

Up to 8 years in prison for copying data from registers: Instead of EU anti-corruption laws, the Council is preparing punishments for investigative journalists, - in fact, the Verkhovna Rada plans to consider draft law No. 10242, which stipulates up to 8 years in prison for using data from the state registry during martial law. This would actually allow investigative journalists who expose the illegal enrichment of officials to be deprived. Vitaly Shabonin, head of the Communist Party of Ukraine, writes about this on Facebook. "Instead of anti-corruption laws, according to which the European Union gives money to Ukraine, Zelensky's deputies want to vote tomorrow to jail journalists who write about their wealth," he notes. "From the notebooks, journalists learn about elite apartments of relatives of officials, trips of people's deputies to the Russian Federation and fortunes that cannot be earned with a deputy's salary. A journalist can become an "accomplice", and his source - a criminal. 8 years is already a serious crime, that is wiretapping and surveillance on both (both the journalist and the source)," Shabonin adds. And we are on Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik-Tok, YouTube.