What the webinar is about

The event is organised jointly with the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU), a national organisation representing the interests of more than 3,000 enterprises across Ukraine.

A FREE SERVICE FOR FEU MEMBERS

A review of one request received by the company from any law enforcement body, with a written opinion: whether it is binding, the safe scope of an answer, the risks, a draft strategy for the reply.

How to obtain the service: after the webinar leave a request through the FEU or write to [email protected] marking it "FEU" and naming the webinar. The service is provided to FEU members free of charge, in the scope set out in the programme, with an NDA signed where needed.

The webinar is for you if at least one of these is your question

You have received a letter from a law enforcement body demanding documents and do not know whether you are obliged to answer.

You have had such requests before and answered them as they came, without weighing the risk of self-incrimination.

Your accountants or your lawyer decide on their own what to send the investigator, with no single protocol.

You suspect the company already features in criminal proceedings but have no confirmation of it.

You want to understand what ignoring a request leads to and when a letter is followed by a search.

Programme

The legal nature of the request of each body and the difference between them: a request under Article 93 of the Criminal Procedure Code, temporary access to things and documents, an advocate's request, a request from an operational unit.

Which requests are binding and which are not. The deadlines for a reply and the consequences of missing them.

What may lawfully be withheld: advocate's privilege, banking secrecy, commercial secrecy, personal data.

How to answer without self-incrimination and without giving away more than needed: the technique of the minimally sufficient reply.

The signs that the company is already a subject of proceedings, and how to check them.

The consequences of ignoring a request: temporary access, a search, the seizure of equipment and documents.

The consequences of answering too fully: how a company's own letters become evidence for the prosecution.

A review of real requests from the practice of PROCTOR.

Speaker of the webinar

Daria Svystula

Managing partner, attorney at law

Defends business owners, entrepreneurs and senior executives, their assets and their reputation, in economic crime proceedings. Represents senior state officials in cases investigated by the NABU and the SAPO. 16 years in the law. Founded PROCTOR law firm in 2023.

Lawyer profile

Requests from law enforcement to a company: how to react, what to answer and what follows