Prosecutor General's Office denies searches at home and office of Kravchenko

The Prosecutor General's Office has denied that searches were carried out at the home or office of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko on the evening of 4 September.

Source: Mariana Haiovska, Head of the Information Policy and Communications Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda

Details: Haiovska said that investigators had carried out no searches either at the Prosecutor General's home or in his office.

Background:

• Ukrainska Pravda learned that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) were conducting searches at premises belonging to Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, his deputy Mariia Vdovychenko and Oleh Kiper, Head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration.
• On the evening of 4 September, it was reported was conducting investigative actions at the Prosecutor General's Office as part of a special operation to expose a criminal organisation.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources in business circles, NABU and SAPO have detained Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the International Legal Cooperation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office.
• NABU and SAPO said they were conducting a special operation to expose a criminal organisation headed by an official from the Prosecutor General's Office and involved in protecting a network of fraudulent call centres and the laundering of assets.
• The Prosecutor General's Office said it will fully cooperate with the anti-corruption agencies in the case concerning the operation of fraudulent call centres.
• The Prosecutor General's Office added that it will suspend the employee whose possible involvement in unlawful activities is being investigated.

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