The Verkhovna Rada has supported the creation of the Bureau of Economic Security, which should replace the tax police. The people’s deputies adopted draft law No. 3087-d as a whole in the first reading.
The law proposes the separation of the service and law enforcement functions of the tax service, the elimination of the tax police, the optimization of the structure and number of bodies fighting crimes in the field of finance, and, in fact, the creation of the Bureau of Economic Security.
The Bureau will have the status of a law enforcement agency and will carry out measures aimed to prevent, detect, suppress, investigate and solve crimes in the field of the formation and use of financial resources of the state.
The maximum number of department staff will no exceed 3,000 people.
It is also proposed to liquidate the counterintelligence units to protect the interests of the state in the field of economic security of the Security Service of Ukraine.
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