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Public Lustration Committee#

A delegate on the Council at the unanimous adoption of the revised Indicators

The Public Lustration Committee is a Ukrainian civic organization formed in the post-Maidan lustration movement. It is documented on CrimeaWatch because it delegated members to the Public Integrity Council’s first and second compositions — including Vadym Valko, who sat on the Council when it unanimously adopted, on 16 December 2020, the revised Indicators of Integrity containing paragraph 1.5.

Why This Profile Exists#

The Committee’s involvement is historical rather than current: it took part in the first two cycles and in neither of the two most recent ones. What places it in this registry is the timing of the second.

Vetting officials for past conduct was the Committee’s founding purpose, and the PIC extended that logic to the judiciary. Paragraph 1.5 applies it to a category Ukrainian law treats differently from the rest: conduct on Ukrainian territory under temporary occupation. The Constitution defines Crimea as an integral part of Ukraine (Articles 2, 73, 133–134); the Law on the Temporarily Occupied Territory (No. 1207-VII, 2014) establishes a legal regime for the peninsula distinct from that of a foreign state. The provision assesses a judge’s journey to Crimea as it would assess a journey to Russia, subject only to an exception for urgent need — an exception that confirms the default rather than removing it.

What This Profile Does Not Claim#

CrimeaWatch documents no statement by the Public Lustration Committee recognizing Crimea as Russian territory, and none is alleged here.

The first composition falls outside the methodology claim: the 2016 delegation predates the Indicators, whose first version was adopted on 11 January 2019, and is recorded as institutional history rather than as a documented instance.

Delegation is not a vote. Vadym Valko voted on 16 December 2020; the Committee did not. What is documented at the organizational level is the placement of the voting member and the absence of any public objection to the text adopted.

Nomination Record#

In the assembly that formed the Council’s first composition in 2016, the organization put forward 2 candidates and 2 were seated. Its nominations overlapped with those of Transparency International Ukraine. Across the assembly as a whole, nine organizations submitted 30 nominations covering 24 distinct people for 20 seats, and 6 of the 20 members elected were nominated by two organizations at once.

Cross-nomination is permitted by the procedure and is not in itself irregular. It is recorded here because the authority of the Council’s Indicators of Integrity rests on the breadth of the body that adopts them, and the published candidate tables are the only public measure of that breadth. See Who Vetted the Vetters for the full arithmetic.

Response and Corrections#

The Public Lustration Committee may submit a response or a correction request to [email protected]. Submissions are assessed against the underlying sources. Where a statement on this page is shown to be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, the profile is amended and the correction is recorded.

CrimeaWatch does not publish responses verbatim and gives no undertaking to reproduce them. What a verified response changes is the content of this profile.

Summary#

The Public Lustration Committee is documented on this site as the delegating organization of Vadym Valko, a member of the Public Integrity Council’s second composition at the time it unanimously adopted the revised Indicators of Integrity on 16 December 2020, and of two members of the first composition jointly with Transparency International Ukraine.

The organization has not publicly addressed the contradiction between paragraph 1.5 of those Indicators and the legal regime Ukrainian law establishes for the temporarily occupied peninsula.

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