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The High Anti-Corruption Court (VAKS) chose to detain the deputy head of the International Cooperation Department, Serhiy Krypyva, who is accused of shielding fraudulent call centers, with a custody measure and an alternative bail of 120 million UAH.
The corresponding decision was announced on Sunday, 6 September, by investigative judge Viktor Maslov, as reported by Ukrinform.
"The petition to take Serhiy Vasylovych Krypyva into custody has been granted partially. To apply a custodial measure with an alternative of depositing 120 million UAH as a bail. The term of the custody ruling is set through 02.11.2026 year inclusive," the judge announced.
If bail is posted, the suspect is assigned a number of obligations: appear at the first request of the investigator, prosecutor, or investigative judge; inform about any change of residence; refrain from communicating with witnesses, including Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and his first deputy, Mariya Vdovichenko; also surrender passports for travel abroad and wear an electronic monitoring device.
During the court session, the Prosecutor's Office (SAP) urged applying the custodial measure with an alternative bail of 200 million UAH.
In turn, Krypyva’s defense asked the court to deny this motion, citing the lack of grounds for suspicion and the impossibility of posting such a sum.
The ruling may be appealed to the APU VAKS within five days from the date of its announcement.
BAGNET reminds that on 4 September the SAP and NABU announced that within the Carthage operation they uncovered a criminal organization led by the head of one of the offices of the Prosecutor General's Office, which systematically received bribes from fraudulent call centers and laundered the proceeds.
According to the investigation, a senior official of the OGP created a group in the middle of 2025 year, involving active prosecutors and close unofficial associates. Participants instituted fees for unhindered operation of shadow call centers that defrauded Ukrainians and foreigners on a large scale.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, the deputy head of the International Cooperation Department of the OGP Serhiy Krypyva was detained.
5 September at the Office of the Prosecutor General they announced the need for a legal assessment of nighttime searches by NABU in the OGP leadership's offices and the detectives' access to materials from other criminal cases.
6 September, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko released a statement asserting that he has nothing to do with shielding illegal call centers.
Kravchenko stated that he removed from duties a staff member of the OGP who figures in NABU's investigation, and tasked preparing a personnel decision on his dismissal in accordance with the law.
He also emphasized that the guilt of the aforementioned OGP employee would in the future be determined by the court.
Kravchenko also noted that he would not stop at a single personnel decision and commissioned a review of the International Cooperation Department, where the investigation’s figure worked, and the cybercrime unit. During this review, decisions and results of work will be audited.
He also instructed organizing polygraph tests for all employees of the structural units involved in procedural leadership and investigations into illegal call centers. He assured that based on the review results, personnel and official decisions would be made, and criminal-procedural measures taken if warranted.
Kravchenko also states that the safe shown in the photo circulating in media and social networks is not located at the Office of the Prosecutor General.
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