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He was buying real estate while working in the cyberpolice and the Regional Military Administration.
NABU and SAP, as part of the Carpathian operation, calculated illicit assets totaling more than 89 million hryvnias. To earn this money on the minimum wage in Ukraine would require approximately 850 years, according to a new Bihus.Info project material. Journalists established that the period of the “Chancellor”’s improved life — the deputy head of the Department for International Cooperation of the OPG Sergiy Kropero (Kropyva) who is the main figure of the case — fell in the 2021-th year, when he worked in the cyber police. At that time his relatives began buying real estate in Kyiv: his mother — a house in Lisnyky, his mother-in-law — several non-residential premises.
Then Kropar moved to the position of deputy head of the Odesa Regional State Administration under Oleg Kiper — he is also mentioned on the recordings, sources at ZN.UA said that he had searches conducted and his phone seized. And there the suspect’s threshold “slightly rose,” because that is when the “Chancellor”’s family decided to invest in the Glacier hotel on the shore of the Lake of Youth in the very center of Bukovel. At that time the apartment complex, which today is called the largest in Ukraine, was only just being built.
At the start of construction, the price per square meter there ranged from 4,5 thousand dollars, and one of the project’s clients was Oksana Chobotar — the daughter of the former controversial deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, who became known for his involvement in the sand schemes and in the infamous “Avakov backpacks” case. Several months ago Chobotar left the hotel property structure.
Kropyva’s relatives invested in four apartments and three parking spaces, which would have cost them 28,5 million hryvnias. When Bihus.Info journalists began publishing a series of investigations about Glacier, Kroper, who at that time had not yet completed re-registration of ownership in his name, decided to “defend himself” and registered it to his mother and wife of his driver — Serhiy Kutsyi. Yesterday the High Anti-Corruption Court chose for Kutsyi preventive measure in the form of arrest for two months with the possibility to post 3 million hryvnias bail.
Also the assets were helped to launder by another co-defendant of the investigation — 24-year-old Yelizaveta Ivakhnenko, who on anti-corruption recordings appears under the codename “Muza,” and whom the VACs (the Specialized Anti-Cabotage Court) yesterday also sent to arrest until 2 November with the possibility of posting 20 million hryvnias bail. The assets were registered in her name and her mother’s, while the “Muza” herself was telling the Chancellor accounts of what and how much to move through the FOPs.
Recall that 4 September NABU and SAP announced the Carpathian operation, during which a criminal group operating a network of fraudulent call centers was uncovered: it coordinated raids in “not their” offices, while from “their” side they collected subscription payments of 20-24 thousand dollars per month, according to ZN.UA sources. The defendants in the investigation include senior officials of the OPG, in particular deputy head of the Department for International Cooperation Sergiy Kroiva (on recordings — “Chancellor”), whom VACs already took into custody with the possibility of posting 120 million hryvnias bail.
Also in this story the attorney general Ruslan Kravchenko was implicated, who of course denies his involvement. However, the investigation established that Kroiva was close to the attorney general, he controlled and financed the repairs at his house in Kozyn, and it was he who, on one of the recordings, called his boss by patronymic — Andriyovych.
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