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Ukraine's parliament takes a third run at the panel that runs Accounting Chamber hiring
Ukraine's Rada will try a third time to form the Accounting Chamber's hiring panel, with over half its posts vacant for almost two years. The vote ties into commitments to partners whose financial aid depends on them, Mezha reported, citing Ukrainska Pravda.
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Key figures: 6 Ukrainian candidates are on the list for 3 Ukrainian seats the Rada must fill on the expert group. The group must also include 3 international experts.
| Figure | Value | Note | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian candidates on the list | 6 candidates | 13 | |
| Ukrainian seats to fill | 3 seats | 6 | |
| International experts, required | 3 experts | 6 |
What happened
- The competition was announced after the December 2024 reform law, but since June 2025 parliament has been unable to vote the expert group into existence.
- Compared with the previous submission, the Ukrainian list adds five names: Vyshlynskyi, Zhupanyn, Kamenska, Marchenko and Pashuk.
- Masliak is the only candidate carried over, and she missed the required vote count in both earlier rating votes.
- The Rada has to choose three Ukrainians from the list, and the group will also include three international experts.
Why it matters
- constraint Choosing the experts is the step meant to unblock the competition, so a third failed vote leaves the hiring process stuck at its first stage.
- decision Deputies pick three of six Ukrainian names, so three candidates are out whichever way the vote goes.
- exposure Two of the six, Zhupanyn and Kamenska, are named by the article's author as raising questions on the reputation test, so any vote for either will be read against that clause.
- contradiction The Kamenska allegations are unconfirmed by the journalists themselves, yet the ethics commission faulted the reporting and also left open that the land was undervalued.
The statute's test has one clause that can be checked and several that cannot. Five years in audit, economics, finance or law is a line on a CV [7]. Impeccable business reputation, high professional and moral qualities and public authority are judgments [7]. In our view that is where a vote on any single name can go either way. The article's author questions whether some candidates meet the requirements [8].
Two cases get detail. Bihus.info reported in 2024 that Zhupanyn travelled abroad regularly during the full-scale war to study at London Business School and to holiday there with his wife, including during plenary sittings and votes [9]. Deputies may leave the country only for work reasons [18]. Zhupanyn explained the trips as work for the Ukraine-UK friendship group or as leave, and the journalists found no confirmation of working meetings in that period [9].
That same year NAZK finished a full check of his 2023 declaration and doubted his explanation for his wife's cash holdings: 1.5 million hryvnias, 182,000 dollars, 195,000 euros and 130,000 pounds sterling [10]. She said it was savings from her father's business [10]. NAZK recorded inaccuracies in the declaration but, citing the small amount involved, found no signs of an offence [10].
Kamenska's file dates from 2021. A media investigation that July examined her assets and her influence over auditor self-governance [15]. Its author argued that, while heading both the Auditors Chamber of Ukraine and the auditor certification commission, she could have used a jump in certificates issued to win support for her re-election as chamber head [15]. The article notes that the journalists gave no clear confirmation of those suspicions [15].
The same investigation covered a house and plot in Bobrytsia, near Kyiv. Its author said the house cost 702,000 hryvnias against a market value that allegedly exceeded 8 million [16]. Instead of suing to refute the allegations, Kamenska complained to the Commission on Journalistic Ethics [16]. The commission did not rule out that the plot's value was understated and found breaches of several journalistic standards, including balance of opinion and separation of fact from judgment [16].
Parliament's own staff make up a large part of the list. Marchenko is first deputy head of the Servant of the People faction secretariat, and Pashuk and Masliak are each assistant-consultants to an MP [11]. That is three of the six Ukrainian candidates [14][13]. Zhupanyn, a fourth, is a former MP [4].
What to watch
- The date of the third vote, which the report puts only in the near future, and whether Masliak clears the threshold against the five new names.
- Whether the Rada picks Zhupanyn or Kamenska, the two whose backgrounds the article questions.
- Whether the three international experts are named and the group is formed, since the competition cannot open before that.
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The Accounting Chamber has worked for almost two years with more than half of its posts vacant.
- [2]
In the near future the Verkhovna Rada will try for a third time to vote to create an advisory group of experts (DGE) that will run the competition for Accounting Chamber member posts.
- [3]
The competition was announced after a new law on Accounting Chamber reform was adopted in December 2024, but since June 2025 parliament has been unable to vote to create the DGE.
- [4]
Compared with the previous submission, the updated list of Ukrainian candidates adds five: Hlib Vyshlynskyi (executive director of the Center for Economic Strategy), Andrii Zhupanyn (former MP of the IX convocation and former deputy chair of the parliamentary energy and housing committee), Tetiana Kamenska (head of the Auditors Chamber of Ukraine and professor), Mykola Marchenko (first deputy head of the Servant of the People faction secretariat) and Nataliia Pashuk (assistant-consultant to an MP).
- [5]
Myroslava Masliak, a senior lecturer at Kharkiv National University of Economics and assistant-consultant to an MP, is the only candidate remaining from the previous submission; she did not get the required number of votes in two earlier rating votes.
- [6]
The Verkhovna Rada must choose three candidates from those proposed and vote to create the DGE; besides Ukrainian specialists, the group must include three international experts.
- [7]
By law, the experts who will select Accounting Chamber members must have at least five years of work in state control (audit), economics, finance or law, and are required to have impeccable business reputation, high professional and moral qualities and public authority.
- [8]
The author of the article believes there are questions about whether individual candidates meet these requirements.
ReportedSupportedSource: Author of the article relayed by Mezha from Ukrainska PravdaView cited source - [9]
In 2024 Bihus.info journalists reported that during the full-scale war Andrii Zhupanyn regularly travelled abroad to study at London Business School and holidayed there with his wife, including during plenary sessions and votes of the Verkhovna Rada. Zhupanyn explained the trips as work within the Ukraine-UK parliamentary friendship group or as leave; the journalists found no confirmation of working meetings in that period.
- [10]
In 2024 NAZK completed a full check of Zhupanyn's 2023 declaration and doubted his explanation of the origin of his wife's cash assets: 1,500,000 hryvnias, 182,000 dollars, 195,000 euros and 130,000 pounds sterling. His wife explained it as savings from her father's business activity. NAZK recorded inaccurate information in the declaration but, because of the insignificant amount, did not establish signs of an offence.
- [11]
Marchenko is first deputy head of the secretariat of the Servant of the People faction; Pashuk and Masliak are each assistant-consultants to an MP.
- [12]
The selection of experts is meant to unblock the competition for Accounting Chamber member posts.
- [13]
The Ukrainian list has six candidates for three seats, so three are excluded whichever way the vote goes.
- [14]
Three of the Ukrainian candidates (Marchenko, Pashuk, Masliak) hold staff posts tied to the legislature.
- [15]
In July 2021 a media outlet published an investigation into Tetiana Kamenska's assets and influence over auditor self-governance. Its author claimed that, while heading both the Auditors Chamber and the auditor certification commission, she could have used a significant rise in certificates issued to secure support in her re-election as head of the Chamber; the journalists did not provide clear confirmation of these suspicions.
- [16]
The publication also covered Kamenska's purchase of a private house and plot in the village of Bobrytsia near Kyiv, which according to the investigation's author cost 702,000 hryvnias while its market value allegedly exceeded 8 million. Instead of suing to refute the accusations, Kamenska complained to the public organisation Commission on Journalistic Ethics, which did not rule out that the plot's value was understated but found violations of several journalistic standards, including balance of opinion and separation of facts from judgments.
- [17]
The matter concerns not only staffing renewal but also fulfilment of commitments to international partners on whom the provision of financial aid depends.
- [18]
Deputies may leave the country only for work reasons.
Sources
1 independent publisher whose own reporting we read for this story.
- mezha.netРахункова палата: Рада втретє спробує сформувати експертну групу для конкурсу
1 article · October 12, 2026
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