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Prosecutor General Kravchenko signed a suspicion notice for NABU Director Kryvonos and left the country. What is known:
▪️Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko in the morning of 14 September announced that he is notifying the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Semen Kryvonos, of suspicion. According to him, Kryvonos is suspected of forging documents to obtain undue benefits and fictitious adoption to avoid liability in court. Another suspicion concerns a person close to the head of the SAP for influencing WACS judges, offering a bribe, and assisting in evasion of mobilization.
▪️President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to Kravchenko’s public statement in less than an hour: “This prosecutor general has only one path: dismissal from office. That is exactly what I told him. Ukraine has seen all the reasons. If he considers this political pressure, let him call it that. I ask parliamentarians to support this dismissal immediately.”
▪️NABU and the SAP, in response to Kravchenko’s actions, said they view this “as a continuation of a systemic attack on independent anti-corruption bodies.” They also stated that as of now “no suspicion has been officially handed to NABU Director Semen Kryvonos.”
▪️Ukrainska Pravda, citing sources, reported that Kravchenko left the country. Later he himself confirmed that he is on an overseas business trip, during which “a number of meetings are planned in the course of which I intend to inform international partners about the real state of affairs in the system of anti-corruption bodies.”
▪️15 September the Verkhovna Rada will vote on the resignation of Ruslan Kravchenko from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine, said Servant of the People faction leader David Arakhamia.
As a reminder, 7 September Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation as Prosecutor General amid the NABU and SAP operation “Carthage” exposing a criminal organization linked to the operation of fraudulent call centers. The organizer of the scheme is believed to be Deputy Head of the Department of International Cooperation of the GPO Serhiy Kropyva. According to law enforcement, the GPO official created and led a criminal organization in mid-2025 year; its participants allegedly established a mechanism for systematically receiving bribes in exchange for not obstructing the illegal activities of the so-called call centers. On recordings published by NABU and the SAP, Kropyva addresses someone as “Boss” and “Andriyovych” (which matches Ruslan Kravchenko’s patronymic). NABU and the SAP did not explain whom exactly Kropyva calls “Boss.”
Commenting on the anti-corruption agencies’ investigation, Kravchenko said he has “no connection to covering up illegal call centers, did not give instructions to facilitate such activities, and did not use the powers of the Prosecutor General to do so.”