Ukraine’s business ombudsman sees his first year as success

Ukraine’s business ombudsman, Lithuanian-born Algirdas Semeta, is getting results.He and the body he heads, the Business Ombudsman Council, as of May 1 had launched investigations involving 60 percent of the 799 complaints they received since starting investigations in May 2015. Of these, 341 cases have been resolved; in some cases state officials were dismissed.

“For me the most important thing is implementation, because what I think Ukraine lacks is actual implementation in many areas,” Semeta told the Kyiv Post during an interview at his office in Kyiv’s Podil district on May 11. “I insist on the thorough implementation of our recommendations, and we don’t stop monitoring until we see that the recommendations we make are implemented.”

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