Sytnyk Artem

Artem SYTNYK is the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), to which he was appointed on April 16th, 2015. He started his career in 2001 as a district attorney assistant of Leninskiy district, Kirovohrad and later, in October 2001, he was reassigned to an investigator position. In April 2004 he was appointed as a Senior Investigator of Kirovohrad regional Prosecutor's office, and two years later he was promoted as the Head of the Investigations Division. In August 2008, Mr. Sytnyk was transferred to Kyiv regional Prosecutor's office to be the Head of their Investigations Division. In August 2011, he resigned because of his objections to policies of the Yanukovych regime, criminalization of law enforcement agencies, rollback in the fight against corruption, total incompetence and political bias imposed by the Kyiv regional Prosecutor general of that time. After leaving the public sector, Mr. Sytnyk began practicing law, serving as the Head of the Legal Guarantees law firm from October 2011 to April 2015. His investigation team brought to justice many judges and officials of the Security Service of Ukraine, internal affairs agencies, tax police, border guard services, district state administrations, region councils, city councils, district councils, State Committees on land resources and water management, State Inspection on consumer rights protection, State Penitentiary Service and State Ecological Inspection for taking bribes and committing other corruption-related crimes. Throughout his career, Mr. Sytnyk personally investigated or led investigation teams working on more than 300 criminal proceedings, most of which concerned corruption-related crimes. Among those proceedings, he led the investigation of 8 members of the Electoral Commission who were found criminally responsible for falsifying the Presidential election results in the №100 electoral district, 7 of them were deputies of the Kirovohrad city council and regional council. Mr. Synyk graduated cum laude with a degree in legal studies from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy of Ukraine in 2001.