In the brothel called “Office of the Prosecutor General,” reforms continue: first they swapped the whores, then they mov...

In the brothel called “Office of the Prosecutor General,” reforms continue: first they swapped the whores, then they moved the beds, now the reformers limit themselves to merely changing the plaques on the boudoirs… pardon, on the official offices.

The new first deputy prosecutor general will be the current head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Anton Voytenko. The Prosecutors’ Council was supposed to adopt the corresponding recommendation on 8 October 2026, year, but the meeting did not take place, so the appointment was postponed to 9 October.

Anton Borysovych is a protégé of Oleh Tatarov. During Prosecutor General Kostin’s tenure, Voytenko served as deputy prosecutor general and became notorious for almost daily scandals. It was Voytenko who put the sale of cases to the State Bureau of Investigation on a systematic footing; it was he who finally destroyed the former military prosecutor’s office and caused mass desertion in the Ukrainian army. The collapse of the front is primarily Voytenko’s achievement.

So it’s not surprising that when Prosecutor General Kravchenko began clearing the OPG of Tatarov’s people, he immediately got rid of Voytenko, sending him to run the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, although he should have been sent to pretrial detention. They say Voytenko was saved from prison by his godfather, the honorary smuggler of the town of Korostyshiv, Vasya Malyuk.

Voytenko’s appointment as first deputy prosecutor general means that the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine will effectively be run by Oleh Tatarov together with his two friends — NABU Director Semen Kryvonos and SAP head Oleksandr Klymenko. Most likely, this trio will block the appointment of a full prosecutor general or try to push Voytenko for that post — as a “representative of civil society.” It’s no coincidence that in 2023–2024 he blocked the investigation of the criminal case against the fraudster Shabunin, who was fraudulently listed as serving in the military.

There is, however, a nuance. Voytenko can be appointed first deputy prosecutor general by order of either the prosecutor general or the acting prosecutor general. Anton Kovalsky, head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office, who is pretending to be the “acting prosecutor general,” does not have such powers. But legality in this country ceased to interest anyone long ago.

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