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🔈 In the Office of the Prosecutor General they revised the distribution of powers. The corresponding changes are provided for by Order of Acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalskyi No. 244
Under the new distribution, Kovalskyi retained overall leadership and key organizational matters. These include interaction with the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Office of the President, the National Security and Defense Council, and the High Council of Justice; coordination of law enforcement agencies in the field of crime prevention; personnel work; international cooperation; the General Inspection; internal audit; information policy; and protection of state secrets.
Directly remaining with the Acting Prosecutor General was also interaction with international associations of prosecutors and anti-corruption bodies, the Consultative Council of European Prosecutors, Eurojust, Interpol, and Europol.
The rest of the main areas were distributed among four deputies.
🔸 Maksym Krym is responsible for the law enforcement and representative block. Assigned to him are the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office, oversight of compliance with laws by the National Police of Ukraine, bodies combating organized crime, and the State Bureau of Financial Investigations. His responsibilities also include investment protection, representing the state’s interests in court, public communications, and handling appeals and inquiries.
🔸 Andrii Leshchenko will coordinate the defense, law enforcement, and human rights blocks. Assigned to him are the Specialized Defense Prosecutor’s Office, oversight of the State Bureau of Investigations, countering crimes committed in the context of armed conflict, and violations of human rights in law enforcement and the penitentiary system. He will also be responsible for the Coordination Center for Support of Victims and Witnesses and for interaction with ARMA.
🔸 Viktor Lohachov’s portfolio expanded most noticeably. He retained the department for the protection of children’s interests and countering domestic violence, but a whole digital block was added to this direction — the Department of Information Technologies, countering criminal offenses in the field of cybersecurity, as well as organizational support of the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations and information-analytical work.
🔸 Oleksii Khomenko will be responsible for oversight of security agencies, criminal proceedings concerning offenses related to mass protests 2013–2014, management of state property and procurement, financial planning activities and accounting, digitization of recordkeeping, and sustaining public prosecution in court. He is also assigned interaction with the Training Center for Prosecutors of Ukraine.
📌 The order separately defined deputies’ interchangeability: Maksym Krym substitutes for Viktor Lohachov and vice versa, Andrii Leshchenko substitutes for Oleksii Khomenko and vice versa.
The order separately regulated the situation in case of absence of the acting prosecutor general: then his powers will be exercised by one of the deputies in accordance with a separate order.
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