Zelenskyy urges parliament to support dismissal of Prosecutor General Kravchenko

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to parliament to support the dismissal of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.

Source: Zelenskyy on social media

Quote: "There is only one path for this prosecutor general: dismissal from office. That is precisely what I told him. Ukraine has seen all the reasons."

Details: According to Zelenskyy, if Kravchenko considers this political pressure, he is free to call it that. "I ask parliamentarians to support this dismissal urgently."

Background:

• Prior to this, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko stated that he had signed a notice of suspicion against Semen Kryvonos, director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), and accused NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) of seizing case files concerning proceedings against their own staff during searches conducted as part of an anti-corruption operation called Operation Carthage, in an effort to halt procedural decisions in these cases.
• On 4 September, Ukrainska Pravda reported that NABU and SAPO were conducting searches at the premises of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, his deputy Mariia Vdovychenko and Oleh Kiper, Head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration.
• On 5 September, the Prosecutor General's Office confirmed that NABU detectives had conducted searches at office premises "used by Kravchenko".
• NABU and SAPO detained Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the International Legal Cooperation Department of the prosecutor general's office.
• On 5 September, NABU and SAPO announced that they had uncovered a criminal organisation which investigators said is run by the head of a department at the prosecutor general's office. Members of the organisation are suspected of regularly taking bribes from scam call centres and money laundering. Sources told Ukrainska Pravda that the department head in question is Serhii Kropyva.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, searches conducted at the home of First Deputy Prosecutor General Maria Vdovychenko revealed materials indicating surveillance of the heads of anti-corruption agencies, their families, and their subordinates.
• Amid the NABU and SAPO investigation into the "protection racket" involving call centres, Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation as prosecutor general.

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