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Also Kroppiva received authority to oversee all criminal proceedings concerning call centers.
Prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General Serhiy Kroppiva, who is implicated in the Karfagen case, coordinated searches in “not his” call centers with Aydyn Khudiev, head of the Directorate for Ensuring the Prosecutor General’s Powers in Criminal Proceedings, who played a significant role in the attack on NABU and SAP last year, according to the Center for Combating Corruption.
"I’m going to be with Aydin now, discuss this. So that we coordinate everything there. Yes, he somehow came up with a procedure for how he will monitor all of them. There, everyone sends search warrants this week along this line. He can already get them from there. There, theoretically, he sent you, you monitor. Hmm. So that he is responsible for ensuring that nothing happens without his knowledge or your permission. Okay. We need to click with the mouse in this case, with a bit of muscle. Come on," the SAP prosecutor quoted Kroppiva during the securing of a preventive measure.
In addition, in one of the NABU-recorded conversations, it is stated that Kroppiva received official powers to control all criminal proceedings concerning the activities of call centers in Ukraine.
Kroppiva, Khudiev, and the head of the Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General for legal compliance overseen by the agencies that fight organized crime, Ashot Gheorikian, discussed these changes with management and emphasized full support from Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.
"Hello, bro, right now… They’re there with the boss negotiating regarding 309 an order: it will be a hybrid topic, all cyber, all cyber-related matters, all regions on cyber, the moves are made with us," quoted Kroppiva by the SAP prosecutor.
In another recorded conversation Kroppiva tells his driver that the attorney general, at his request, "gave his blessing" to his deputies in the interests of the criminals.
"Seems like everything will be just as we want. If someone something doesn’t suit someone there, then the boss will tell how it should be and it will be as we need," Kroppiva boasts in another conversation.
4 September NABU and SAP announced Operation Karfagen — an investigation into the activity of a probable criminal organization led by a official of the Office of the General Prosecutor, involved, according to the investigation, in shielding fraudulent call centers and laundering funds.
The first detainee was a top official of the OGP Serhiy Kroppiva — the "Chancellor" in NABU materials. Investigative actions were conducted in the Office of the Prosecutor General’s premises, as well as with Deputy Prosecutor General Maria Vdovichenko and head of Odesa Regional Military Administration Oleg Kipera, who had previously headed Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office. Meanwhile, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko initially disappeared, and as media reported, could not be found for 12 hours. However, ZN.UA sources reported that the prosecutor general is currently in Kyiv, at the Dobrobut clinic on Novopecherski Lypki.
On Sunday, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko denied any involvement in actions facilitating the call centers. He said that an employee of the Office of the Prosecutor General implicated in the investigation was suspended from duty. He also ordered the preparation of a personnel decision regarding his dismissal. He also called the reports about his alleged disappearance untrue.
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