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A mother who does massage on the side in the U.S. and sole proprietors running copy shops.
Relatives and associates of the deputy head of the Department of International Cooperation of the Office of the Prosecutor General, Serhii Kropyva (“Chancellor”), whom NABU and SAP suspect in the “Carthage” operation of involvement in a scheme connected to fraudulent call centers and the legalization of assets, have over recent years purchased houses, apartments, and cars worth more than one million dollars, hromadske writes. Journalists analyzed the assets of the official’s parents, wife, father- and mother-in-law, as well as 24-year-old Yelyzaveta Ivakhnenko, who appears on released audio recordings as “Muza.”
Serhii Kropyva is 42 years old. Since last year he held the position of deputy head of the Department of International Cooperation of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
From 2023 to 2024 he was deputy head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration under Oleh Kiper for digital development. In 2022 he worked in the Office of the Prosecutor General. At that time Kiper headed the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office. Until 2022 Kropyva held senior positions in the Cyber Police.
According to hromadske, active acquisition of assets by his relatives began in 2020, when Kropyva was first deputy head of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine.
Estate in Lisnyky and his parents’ sole proprietors
Kropyva himself, according to the journalists, acquired no property during his years of service except for a privatized apartment in Zolotonosha, Cherkasy region.
His mother, Valentyna Kropyva, is 64 years old. Judging by social media, she lives in Zolotonosha. Earlier she actively ran her pages, posting photos with her official son and with her granddaughter, with whom she vacationed in Cyprus.
Later her social media showed many photos from the U.S., including from Hawaii, the mountains, and Las Vegas, as well as pictures from celebrations with American friends.
At the same time, hromadske notes that journalists found no information about Valentyna Kropyva’s business activity. In a group for Russian-speaking residents of Boulder, Colorado, users recommended contacting her as a practitioner of therapeutic massage.
In July 2020 Valentyna Kropyva wrote on social media that she was returning from the U.S. to Ukraine.
A few months later she purchased an apartment of 40 square meters in the Kyiv residential complex “Comfort Town.” Officially the official’s mother paid more than 800 thousand hryvnias for it, which at that time amounted to more than 30 thousand dollars.
In March 2021 Valentyna Kropyva said she was flying to the U.S. again, and in September of the same year she wrote about her return.
Between these trips she registered a sole proprietorship (FOP) in Ukraine. The registration address was Zolotonosha, Cherkasy region, and the type of activity was photocopying.
On 9 November 2021, after returning from the U.S., Valentyna Kropyva concluded two deals and bought a plot of land and a house in Lisnyky near Kyiv.
At the time of purchase the house was built roughly halfway. Its total area was 258 square meters.
Officially the land and house cost Valentyna Kropyva about 5,5 million hryvnias, or more than 200 thousand dollars.
Now the estate is already completed, hromadske writes. According to the journalists, Serhii Kropyva uses it, although in his declaration he lists the property as unfinished.
In 2023 Valentyna Kropyva bought a Toyota RAV4 2022 model year. Journalists estimate that such cars now cost about 30 thousand dollars.
In 2025 she registered ownership of an apartment of 125 square meters in the residential complex “Faina Town.” The apartment’s price was 6,7 million hryvnias, or more than 160 thousand dollars as of 2025.
Serhii Kropyva’s father, Vasyl, is 65 years old. His entrepreneurial activity began in 2021.
At first he registered a sole proprietorship in wholesale trade, and later another FOP that still operates and specializes in photocopying. Both businesses were registered in Zolotonosha.
In 2023 Vasyl Kropyva became co-owner of the company “Ortigo,” which engages in wholesale grain trade. The company’s net profit from 2023 through the end of 2025 amounted to almost 3 million hryvnias.
Even before the FOPs and the business appeared, Vasyl Kropyva conducted significant financial transactions. For example, in 2020 he loaned Iryna Amelina 3,7 million hryvnias. At that time this was more than 130 thousand dollars.
Amelina must repay the money by 2030. Until then she handed over a house of 290 square meters in Odesa to Vasyl Kropyva as mortgage collateral.
In 2024 Vasyl Kropyva registered ownership of an apartment of 43,8 square meters in Kyiv residential complex UNIT.Home. He paid nearly 2 million hryvnias for the apartment, which at the time amounted to more than 50 thousand dollars.
In 2025 Vasyl Kropyva bought a building of 500 square meters in Boyarka near Kyiv. The purchase price was 2,5 million hryvnias, or more than 62 thousand dollars. A fitness center is located in this building. Its social media indicate the facility is temporarily closed.
Journalists calculate that since 2020 Vasyl Kropyva has officially spent about 250 thousand dollars on real estate in Kyiv, Kyiv region, and Odesa.
Together with his wife they spent about 650 thousand dollars on property.
Journalists say that, according to the investigation, Serhii Kropyva registered FOPs in relatives’ names to channel money through them that could be used to explain the origin of assets.
Information about the wife and her relatives
Serhii Kropyva’s wife, Iryna, is 37 years old. In 2023 she bought a Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class 2023 model year for nearly 5 million hryvnias — more than 130 thousand dollars.
Iryna Kropyva has been registered as an FOP since 2020. Her declared specialization is restaurant activity.
In March 2026 she founded the company “Power Point,” which provides equipment rental.
On audio recordings released by NABU, the person called “Chancellor” asks Kropyva’s wife: “Are you, like, ready to be an entrepreneur at all? There’s both plus and minus in that.”
According to journalists, Iryna Kropyva has no other property besides the car.
Hromadske also reports that she may previously have held a Russian passport.
Now the prosecutor’s wife is listed in other users’ phones as Iryna Rohovchenko. Journalists say a woman with that surname, first name and patronymic, date and place of birth received a Russian passport in the Komi Republic in 2004.
That document is no longer valid.
According to database extracts cited by hromadske, Iryna’s parents, Oleksandr and Halyna Rohovchenko, remain citizens of Russia.
Halyna Rohovchenko is 61 years old. She was born in Vinnytsia region.
Journalists report she received a Russian passport in 2003, and a new one in 2009. Hromadske notes that this document is still valid, which is confirmed by information on the Russian tax service website.
Oleksandr Rohovchenko is 66 years old. He was born in Zhytomyr region. He received a Russian passport in 2005. Information about him is also confirmed by data on the Russian tax service website.
In 2021 Halyna Rohovchenko became owner of three premises in the residential complex “Faina Town.” Their total area is 31,7 square meters.
The total value of the premises exceeded 2 million hryvnias, or more than 80 thousand dollars at the time.
In November 2022 Oleksandr Rohovchenko became owner of a premise of 41,5 square meters in the same “Faina Town.”
Its official value was 3,3 million hryvnias, or more than 90 thousand dollars.
In June 2025 he acquired ownership of another apartment — in the “Great” residential complex on the Dnipro embankment. The apartment’s area is 47,5 square meters. Officially it cost 1,3 million hryvnias, which was more than 30 thousand dollars as of 2025.
The total value of this real estate exceeds 200 thousand dollars.
NABU’s investigation is checking the version that the expensive property in Ukraine could be explained by alleged “earnings” of relatives in Russia.
According to journalists’ checks in Russian databases, the Rohovchenkos’ accounts in Russian banks do not in any way cover the million-dollar purchases in Ukraine.
“Muza” and over 200 thousand dollars in assets
24-year-old Yelyzaveta Ivakhnenko, whom NABU calls “Muza” in the case, graduated from the Odesa Law Academy. On one of the released recordings she talks about the need to remove information from her social media.
“If you delete all this now, I’ll have to delete everything. I have here a Porsche, Loro Piana, Mimi finally, flowers. Well? Watches, bracelets, bags. I need to delete everything, you understand? Can you remove the history? Well, the fur coat too, yes, they can understand it’s not from the budget…” — Ivakhnenko says.
Her social media pages are now deleted, but journalists managed to find individual photos. They show expensive bags and vacations.
In October 2025 Yelyzaveta Ivakhnenko purchased a non-residential space of 150 square meters in Pechersk in central Kyiv. The purchase price was 7 million hryvnias, or more than 160 thousand dollars.
That same year Ivakhnenko became the owner of a Mercedes-Benz EQE 350 2023 model year. According to journalists, this car previously sold for almost 60 thousand dollars.
Thus, during 2025 alone the 24-year-old Ivakhnenko purchased assets worth more than 200 thousand dollars.
Investigators say Serhii Kropyva also registered real estate in the elite Glacier hotel in Ivano-Frankivsk region under straw people.
SAP prosecutor Mykola Karas stated in court that the organizer of the scheme to “cover” fraudulent call centers, Serhii Kropyva, acted with the “full support” of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.
On the audio recordings released by NABU, Kropyva also addresses a person he calls “Boss” and “Andriiyovych.”
Ruslan Kravchenko denies any involvement in “covering” fraudulent call centers and asset legalization. However, on the evening of 7 September he submitted a resignation letter.
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