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She was Kravchenko's first deputy when he headed the State Tax Service.
Lesia Karnaukh, the former deputy of former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and the former acting head of the State Tax Service, had searches conducted, according to UNIAN. She was dismissed from her post on 15 September, on the day the then-head of the General Prosecutor's Office left Ukraine.
According to journalists, NABU and SAPO refused to comment on the information about the investigative actions.
"Law enforcement officers on Tuesday conducted a search of the former deputy of the former prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko and the former acting head of the Tax Service Lesia Karnaukh," the article says.
Currently, neither the reasons for her dismissal nor the reasons for the searches are known. Karnaukh was Kravchenko's first deputy when he headed the Tax Service, and when he moved to the Office of the President in 2025, she headed the Tax Service in the status of acting. According to SAP, Kravchenko even after his dismissal maintained influence over the service and helped appoint a "loyal person" to the position of deputy head of the agency.
As a reminder, journalist Yevhen Plinsky warned that the Bankova may try to quickly "push" through the Verkhovna Rada the appointment of Oleksii Khomenko as Prosecutor General, one of Kravchenko's deputies. The main task — to prevent anticorruption officials from trying to change the format of appointing the head of the OGP and to neutralize manual control over the structure.
Currently, the appointment proceeds as follows: the president personally determines a candidate, submits it for a vote to the Verkhovna Rada, and deputies vote “for” or “against,” after which the head of state signs the decree of appointment. If for some reason the candidate does not receive the necessary 226 votes, he is still appointed to the post, but in acting status. The Anti-Corruption Bloc proposes to adopt a different format; however, there is no single consensus in the expert community regarding an alternative. Among the main options are an open competition with an independent commission that will include international experts, as well as involving a third party in the procedure, such as an Ethics Council or representatives of the EU.
In the article "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 Center for Combating Corruption Olena Shcherban explained why the next appointment of the head of the OGP will be a test for the president.
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