KYIV, Dec. 16 - A selection commission has named a new chief for Ukraine's National Agency for Prevention of Corruption (NAPZK), an independent body that outlines and implements policies to prevent fraud, RFE/RL reported.

The six-member commission unanimously supported Oleksandr Novikov on December 16 as the NAZPK's new head.

Novikov is a prosecutor who was leading a department in Ukraine's Prosecutor-General's Office.