Law. Human. Environment

Legal liability for corruption and related offenses in the field of land relations

Оlena Hulak, Liudmyla Golovko, Lyudmyla Holoviy
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Abstract

Corruption in its various manifestations still remains an acute problem for Ukraine, as a brake on its economic development and effective European integration activities. The opening of the market of agricultural lands in itself provokes the growth of the use of corruption tools, therefore, improving the legal responsibility for corruption and related manifestations in this area is extremely important at the present stage of statehood. The purpose of the study is to analyse the problems of corruption in the land sector and the types of legal liability for such offenses under Ukrainian law. The use of logicalsemantic, system-structural, historical and comparative-legal methods of scientific cognition served as an effective method of analysis of research problems. In the context of the study, an analysis of the types of legal liability for corruption and related offenses in the field of land relations; their specific features at the present stage of construction of the normative basis in the researched sphere are clarified. Administrative, criminal, civil and disciplinary liability for corruption in the field of land relations is analysed. A relatively new institution of Ukrainian law, namely, civil confiscation, including the types of offenses under study are also considered. At the same time, regulatory gaps remain significant, in particular, inconsistencies and conflicts between the so-called anti-corruption terminology contained in related regulations, which should be unified by amending the basic Ukrainian anti-corruption law

Keywords

administrative responsibility, criminal responsibility, civil responsibility, disciplinary responsibility, corruption, land sphere, anti-corruption legislation

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Hulak, O., Golovko, L., & Holoviy, L. (2022). Legal liability for corruption and related offenses in the field of land relations. Law. Human. Environment, 13(1), 73-80. https://doi.org/10.31548/law2022.01.009
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