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Both Kiper and Vdovychenko are connected to "Chancellor" — the main figure in the case about protection of call centers.
Member of parliament from the European Solidarity party Oleksiy Honcharenko said that resignations resulting from the corruption investigation "Carthage" are continuing. According to him, after Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation letter, his first deputy Maria Vdovychenko did the same, as did the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Oleh Kiper.
Earlier ZN.UA reported that NABU, within the framework of this case, conducted searches of Kiper’s premises — both at his home in Kyiv and in Odesa. Detectives seized a phone, but the high-ranking official himself was released.
Kiper is connected to the main figure on the anti-corruption tapes, Serhiy "Chancellor" Kropyva — Kropyva worked as his deputy in 2024, in that position Kropyva was responsible for digital development, transformations, and digitalization (CDTO). Kiper is also connected with the deputy prosecutor general Vdovychenko — she was for a long time his key ally in the capital’s prosecution offices.
Meanwhile, ZN.UA sources report that NABU detectives again visited the OPG today. That visit ended with five new charges.
Recall that in 4 September NABU and the SAP announced operation "Carthage," during which they exposed a criminal group that covered for a network of fraudulent call centers: they coordinated searches of "other people’s" offices, while collecting a subscription fee of 20–24 thousand dollars per month from the "their own" ones, sources for ZN.UA say. The investigation’s figures include senior OPG officials, in particular the deputy head of the Department of International Cooperation Serhiy Kropyva (on the tapes — "Chancellor"), whom the High Anti-Corruption Court has already placed in custody with the possibility of bail of 120 million hryvnias.
The prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko also appeared in this story. And although he denies involvement, the investigation established that Kropyva was close to the prosecutor general, that he controlled and paid for renovations at his house in Kozyn, and that it was Kropyva who on one of the recordings called the "Boss" by his patronymic — Andriyovych. As a result, both Kravchenko and his first deputy Maria Vdovychenko were also subject to searches. At first the OPG denied them, and then said that investigative actions took place in premises "used by" the two, and hinted that NABU and the SAP had their own motive for this because of cases against the anti-corruption agency that the prosecutor general’s office had overseen.
In the article "A Test for Zelensky. Will he change the rules for appointing the prosecutor general after Kravchenko’s resignation?" the head of the legal department of the Anti-Corruption Center, Olena Shcherban, explained why the next appointment of the head of the OPG will be a test for the president.
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