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Andrii Kukharuk is an external consultant of the Secretariat of the OECD Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN). He joined the ACN team as a local advisor of the OECD country specific project to support Ukraine in the area of anti-corruption in December 2014 and moved to the OECD Headquarters in July 2016. There he was in charge of the OECD anti-corruption project for Ukraine, as well as dealt with monitoring of Tajikistan and Armenia under the OECD Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan, was running the ACN Law Enforcement Network, organised and delivered a number of trainings on financial investigations for law enforcement practitioners in different countries. Since July 2018 he continues his work for the OECD ACN as an external consultant. For most of his career, Mr Kukharuk has specialised in different aspects of anti-corruption activities: policy, prevention, prosecutions. Prior to joining the ACN, Mr Kukharuk since 2008 worked in anti-corruption divisions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, where dealt with issues of development and implementation of anti-corruption policy, international cooperation in this area. He was a member of the delegation of Ukraine to GRECO and a national coordinator for the ACN, was involved as an expert to the UNCAC review of implementation, GRECO monitoring and the OECD Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan monitoring. From 2004 to 2008 Mr Kukharuk served as a prosecutor in the Khmelnitsky regional prosecutor’s office where among other things was responsible for detection and prosecution of corruption offences. Andrii Kukharuk is a Ukrainian lawyer, graduated from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy of Ukraine in 2004. He is co-author of a number of anti-corruption laws of Ukraine, including those adopted in the framework of the 2014 anti-corruption reform (Law on Prevention of Corruption) as well as reforming the system of stolen assets’ recovery and management in 2015 (Law On the National Agency of Ukraine for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes).