Ukraine is launching a whistleblower hotline against corruption that will see a chunk of the ill-gotten gains handed straight to the person who reports it, Ukrinform reported.
The country's National Agency of Corruption Prevention announced on Tuesday that it is to launch a public platform, providing a digital portal for people to report suspected corruption.
On Ukrainian state TV, the agency's head Oleksandr Novikov added an incentive to anyone thinking of reporting corruption: the prospect of 10% of the proceeds of any successful case, according to Ukrinform. The portal is due to launch in September, he said.
This reward — up to a maximum of 14 million hryvnias ($380,000) — would be the first-ever whistleblower reward offered in Ukraine, the outlet reported.
An anti-corruption drive is underway in Ukraine, where a recent poll showed 89% of Ukrainians believe it is the country's worst problem after the Russian invasion.
That's also a political problem for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who according to a further poll, is considered by 77% of the population to be to blame for corruption in governmental and military institutions, as Interfax-Ukraine reported.
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