Statute of Limitations by Jurisdiction: Why Doesn’t the Clock Stop for Everyone?

New Bill No. 15354 proposes changing the rules for calculating statutes of limitations in criminal proceedings. However, will the proposed changes truly promote the inevitability of punishment, or will they create new risks to the principle of equality before the law?

In his new article for Protocol, Vitaliy Chayun, an attorney at Barristers Law Firm, analyzes what exactly Bill No. 15354 entails and what legal consequences the proposed changes may have.

The bill proposes suspending the statute of limitations for mobilized defendants, but only in cases investigated by NABU or prosecuted by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).

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