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Oleh Kiper and his circle were taken down over “protection” of fraudulent call centers — media
New details have emerged in the high-profile NABU and SAP case exposing a large criminal organization. As the wiretap materials show, the entire extortion-for-millions scheme was coordinated by Deputy Head of the OPG Department Serhiy Kropyva, nicknamed “Kantsler.” In conversations he constantly reports to his handler — the “Boss” — and he refers to the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper, as his direct superior who coordinated all his work.
Investigators carried out searches directly at Oleh Kiper’s residence. In political circles he has long been called a protégé of Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak. Still, this visit by anti-corruption investigators is a predictable outcome, since the official’s biography has long resembled material for a criminal case.
After the 2014 year, Kiper was subjected to lustration for serving in the Prosecutor General’s Office during Yanukovych’s time. However, he later overturned his dismissal in court and won 800 thousand hryvnias in compensation. He later headed the Kyiv prosecutor’s office, and subsequently the Odesa Regional Military Administration. In those positions the official found himself at the center of scandals: from questions about Odesa fortifications and the Khryplin–5 solar power plant to secret trips to Vienna during the war.
A separate issue is the official’s family “rear.” His wife, Iryna, for years remained a citizen and taxpayer of the Russian Federation with a valid passport and cooperated with the Vestnik Evrazii center, which is used by the FSB.
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