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Artem Sytnyk appointed first director of NABU

On 16 April 2015 President Petro Poroshenko appointed 35-year-old lawyer Artem Sytnyk as the first director of Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine on the day of the decree. Sytnyk went on to lead the bureau for a full seven-year term, which ended in April 2022.

Artem Sytnyk (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 16 April 2015 President Petro Poroshenko appointed 35-year-old lawyer Artem Sytnyk as the first director of Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine on the day of the decree. Sytnyk went on to lead the bureau for a full seven-year term, which ended in April 2022.

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  1. 1.archive.kyivpost.com — sourcearchive.kyivpost.com · verified
  2. 2.babel.uachecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: sytnyk+anti-corruption bureau · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Artem Sytnyk appointed first director of NABU. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sytnyk-appointed-nabu-director-2015-04-16

https://factrail.ai/facts/sytnyk-appointed-nabu-director-2015-04-16

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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