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This concerns Viktoriya Dydych. She and her husband Oleksandr, whom the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has already remanded in custody, are also figures in the NABU recordings.
Today NABU detectives carried out searches at the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Ternopil region. According to media reports, its head Olga Lishchynska may be connected to the "Carthage" case. Meanwhile, the outlet "18000" reports that yesterday there were dismissals at the regional prosecutor’s office in Cherkasy: Viktoriya Dydych — the sister of the main figure in the case, Serhiy "Kantsler" Kropyva — and Maksym Shtompel, who appear on the anti-corruption recordings about protection of call centers, resigned.
The prosecutor’s website states that Dydych is the "head of the first division of procedural supervision in the pre-trial investigation conducted by territorial police bodies and the support of indictment by the supervisory department in criminal proceedings of the Cherkasy Regional Prosecutor’s Office." Her husband Oleksandr also appears in the "Carthage" case; the HACC has already remanded him in custody with the option to post 15 million hryvnias bail.
As for Shtompel, he had been deputy head of the regional prosecutor’s office since April of 2026, and prior to that he was head of the Cherkasy division of the district prosecutor’s office.
Shtompel. Photo: Zaporizhzhia Regional Prosecutor’s Office
The dismissal orders for both were signed by the Office of the Prosecutor General. On the anti-corruption recordings published by Anticor, people whose voices resemble Shtompel’s and Dydych’s discuss appointing the former to a senior post in the prosecutor’s offices and resolving issues for the latter’s friends.
But the prosecutor resignations were initiated by Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko. Although he denies involvement in the corruption scheme protecting call centers, President Volodymyr Zelensky nevertheless "encouraged" him to submit a resignation after speaking with the heads of NABU and SAPO.
According to the investigation, Kravchenko may be a "patron" of Kropyva. "Kantsler" is close to the prosecutor general; he controlled and paid for repairs at his house in Kozyn, and on one recording he referred to his "Boss" by patronymic — Andriyovych. After that, searches were conducted at Kravchenko’s and his first deputy Maria Vdovychenko’s premises (preliminary information indicates she also submitted a resignation). The Office of the Prosecutor General initially denied this, then said the investigative actions took place in premises "used by" those two and hinted that NABU and SAPO had their own motive for this due to cases against Anticor that were overseen by the prosecutor general’s office.
Reminder: The National Anti-Corruption Bureau carried out searches at the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Ternopil region. Suspilne reported this citing sources.
According to the local outlet "20 Khvylyn", the current head of the Main Department of the State Tax Service in Ternopil region, Olga Lishchynska, may be linked to the "Carthage" case regarding protection of call centers by prosecutor’s office employees. However, the outlet’s editorial staff said they were unable to confirm or refute this information at this time.
At the tax office, journalists were told that they are fully cooperating with the investigative actions. The journalist was not allowed into the building. When asked to speak with Lishchynska, a security guard answered that "she is not here."
Recall: In 4, NABU and SAPO announced operation "Carthage," during which a criminal group that covered for a network of fraudulent call centers was exposed: it coordinated searches in "other people’s" offices, while collecting subscription fees of 20–24 thousand dollars per month from "their own" offices, sources tell ZN.UA. High-ranking officials of the Office of the Prosecutor General are among the investigation’s figures, including deputy head of the Department of International Cooperation Serhiy Kropyva (on the recordings — "Kantsler"), whom the HACC has already remanded in custody with the option to post 120 million hryvnias bail.
Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko also "appears" in this story. Although he denies his involvement, the investigation established that Kropyva was close to the prosecutor general, he controlled and paid for repairs at his house in Kozyn, and it was he who on one recording called the "Boss" by the patronymic Andriyovych. As a result, searches were also conducted at Kravchenko’s and his first deputy Maria Vdovychenko’s premises. The Office of the Prosecutor General initially denied this, then said the investigative actions took place in premises "used by" those two and hinted that NABU and SAPO had their own motive for this because of cases against Anticor that the prosecutor general’s office had overseen.
Image above: the Dydych couple. Collage ZN.UA
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