The prosecutor’s wife is a doctor and an unemployed mother suddenly started earning millions. What fraudulent call centers and Operation “Carthage” have to do with it

Relatives of officials of the Office of the Prosecutor General who are subjects of the anti-corruption investigation “Carthage” have in recent years begun opening companies and individual entrepreneur registrations (FOPs) with a large number of KVED activity codes, and received million-hryvnia incomes.

The wife of the deputy head of the OPG Department Aydin Khudiyev earned 9,4 million hryvnias in just over a year of entrepreneurial activity. The wife of the head of the Department of Information Technology Ivan Tymoshenko — about 17 million over two and a half years. The mother of former employee of the Department of Information Technology Danylo Slipchuk — more than 4 million in seven months.

This was discovered by Slidstvo.Info.

In early September, NABU and the SAPU carried out the anti-corruption special operation “Carthage.” Investigators exposed that OPG official Serhii Kropyva, with the “full support” of former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, provided a “roof” for fraudulent call centers.

As SAPU prosecutor Mykola Karas told us, proceeds from this scheme began to be legalized from August–October 2025. This was done through FOPs of close associates of the subjects. Entrepreneurial activity was formalized with KVEDs intended to create the appearance of a real business.

“If, for example, you open a FOP for parents with a main activity in the IT sphere or artificial intelligence, many questions will arise about how the parents are competent in that area. So they took care to have the right KVEDs opened,” Karas added.

In conversations that the SAPU prosecutor read out in court, Aydin Khudiyev, Danylo Slipchuk and Ivan Tymoshenko were mentioned. All three had connections to Kravchenko or Kropyva even before starting work at the Office of the Prosecutor General and before the emergence of the “Carthage” case.

“Investigate, please, other cases”

Serhii Kropyva and Ivan Tymoshenko worked in cyber police before the full-scale war, then — after it began — in the Office of the Prosecutor General. In September of 2022 Kropyva resigned from the OPG; a few weeks later Tymoshenko left as well.

In July of 2023 Kropyva was appointed deputy head of the Odesa Regional State Administration. At least by September of that year Ivan Tymoshenko was already acting director of the Department of Digital Development, Information Policy and Cybersecurity of the Odesa RSA.

Around the same time, in August of 2023, Ivan Tymoshenko’s wife Tetyana opened a FOP with main activities ranging from supplying ready-made meals to trading furniture.

Photo: Tetyana Tymoshenko

According to her husband’s declarations, in four months of 2023 she earned 4,7 million hryvnias. Her income then increased: in 2024 — 5,9 million hryvnias, in 2025 — 6,4 million hryvnias.

Last October Tetyana closed the FOP, and in August of 2026 she reopened it. She now rents out real estate.

It is worth noting that Tetyana Tymoshenko graduated from Bukovinian State Medical University and worked at the Rivne Maternity Hospital. According to her husband’s declarations, in 2020 she last received a salary there — 1 873 hryvnias.

Journalists from Slidstvo.Info called Tetyana Tymoshenko to find out what business she runs and how she managed so quickly to reach million-level income.

Reporter: How did you earn 4,6 million?

Tetyana Tymoshenko: And you, please tell me how much you earn?

Reporter: Well, I don’t earn 6 million.

Tetyana Tymoshenko: Oh, you don’t need to say that now, because I haven’t earned such huge sums as you emphasize. And even if I did, you….

Reporter: How could you not earn them if these amounts are in your husband’s declarations.

Tetyana Tymoshenko: If you call this number one more time, I will speak with my lawyer.

In addition, Tetyana Tymoshenko stated that “Carthage” is “not a high-profile case.”

“This is not such a critical case to be talking to me and especially to be publishing. Investigate, please, other cases that are more urgent in our country right now,” she advised.

According to the SAPU prosecutor, in August of 2025 Serhii Kropyva returned to the Office of the Prosecutor General as deputy head of the Department of International Cooperation. The investigation believes that after this he personally arranged for Tymoshenko to become head of the Department of Information Technology.

Photo: Serhii Kropyva and Ivan Tymoshenko / Serhii Kropyva’s Facebook

Kropyva involved Tymoshenko in resolving household matters and organizing comforts for himself and the then-former Prosecutor General Kravchenko. According to the investigation, the man arranged flight details, booked hotel rooms, collected money from colleagues and friends for gifts. In particular, he took part in choosing a Harley-Davidson motorcycle for Kropyva.

“We want to get together there with the gang, pool money and get him something… We agreed on Monday with Ivan to go look,” SAPU prosecutor Mykola Karas read aloud a conversation between Danylo Slipchuk and Kropyva’s driver Kutsyi in court.

“Dan, do you even have access to our information?”

Danylo Slipchuk studied at the Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law of the Odesa Law Academy.

Photo: excursion of the 1 course of the Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law to the Darnytsia Police Department of the Kyiv Main Directorate of the National Police / 2018 year

As a student, the young man worked at the municipal enterprise Pleso, where, according to the declaration of his father Oleg Slipchuk — head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Volyn region — in 2020 he earned 121 295 hryvnias.

After Serhii Kropyva became deputy head of the Odesa RSA, Danylo Slipchuk joined his team. In April of 2024 they were together at the “Synergy of the South” forum, in August — at a meeting with the company TransformWISE, and in December — at year-end results with the Odesa RSA.

Photo: “Synergy of the South” forum in Odesa

Photo: year-end results with the Odesa RSA

According to Danylo Slipchuk’s declaration, at the Department of Digital Development, Information Policy and Tourism of the Odesa RSA in 2024 he received 429 919 hryvnias in salary.

At the same time he was engaged in entrepreneurship and was co-owner and director of the company “Kvolitil,” which provided information services. In 2024 he declared that he received 11 704 hryvnias of income from the firm.

By the end of 2024, however, Danylo Slipchuk had $35 000 and almost 615 000 hryvnias in savings. In addition, his declaration lists Ethereum cryptocurrency worth about 710 000 hryvnias and Starknet — over 2 million hryvnias.

According to SAPU, in August of 2025 Serhii Kropyva brought Danylo Slipchuk into work at the Office of the Prosecutor General. He became the chief specialist of the Network Administration and Technical Information Security Unit of the Department of Information Technology.

NABU and SAPU believe that Slipchuk played a specific role in the scheme of “covering” call centers. He had access to the database of “offices” and checked their addresses and contact details for the presence of criminal proceedings.

“Dan, do you even have access to our information… Look, please: Dnipro, Sicheslavska embankment, 29A,” SAPU prosecutor Mykola Karas quoted a dialogue between Kropyva and Slipchuk during a court hearing.

In a comment to Slidstvo.Info, SAPU prosecutor Mykola Karas said that no preventive measure has yet been chosen for Slipchuk.

“We are conducting a pre-trial investigation, we will look at the grounds for choosing a preventive measure. If such grounds exist we will file the appropriate petition with the High Anti-Corruption Court. So far we have not filed it,” Karas reported.

Danylo Slipchuk’s father — Oleg Slipchuk — is head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Volyn region. He was appointed to this position in May of 2024. Previously he was deputy head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Dnipropetrovsk region.

Photo: Oleg Slipchuk

Oleg Slipchuk refused to discuss his son’s participation in “Carthage” with Slidstvo.Info journalists:

“What concerns the family — I would not like to discuss that with you. What concerns the operation you mentioned — there is an agency investigating it, talk to them.”

Danylo Slipchuk’s mother Viktoriia was a board member of the NGO “Parent Community of School 111” and in recent years received only social payments. But in 2025 she opened a FOP.

Photo: Viktoriia Slipchuk

According to Oleg Slipchuk’s declaration, in seven months of entrepreneurial activity the woman earned more than 4 million hryvnias. She also listed a variety of KVEDs — from accounting and trade to providing information services and photocopying. At the end of August of 2026 she closed her FOP.

Slidstvo.Info journalists called Viktoriia Slipchuk. She said she was uncomfortable talking and hung up. Subsequent attempts to reach her were unsuccessful.

“We’ll negotiate with Aydin, we’ll allow everything”

Aydin Khudiyev and Ruslan Kravchenko may have known each other since university. Both studied at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv.

In 2019 they together exercised procedural leadership in the case of Oleg Bielavintsev — the Russian president’s representative in Crimea, who was sentenced in absentia to 13 years’ imprisonment for crimes related to the occupation of the peninsula.

“Military prosecutors honorably supported the prosecution in defense of sovereign Ukraine: Ruslan Kravchenko, who left Crimea after the occupation, Crimean Tatar Aydin Khudiyev and Kyiv resident Ihor Nimchenko,” former Prosecutor General Yurii Lutsenko wrote.

Photo: Ruslan Kravchenko, Aydin Khudiyev and Ihor Nimchenko / former Prosecutor General Lutsenko’s press secretary Larysa Sargan / 2019 year

After leaving the Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Central Region, Aydin Khudiyev worked at NABU and the SBU’s Bureau of Economic Security until October of 2024.

According to YouControl, in October of 2024 the man opened a FOP with a wide range of KVEDs: from legal work to consulting on commercial activity and providing information services. Khudiyev’s declarations show that in eight months of entrepreneurial activity he earned almost 2,7 million hryvnias.

A little earlier, in June of 2024, Khudiyev’s wife Yuliia also opened a FOP. Her main activity was legal work, as well as trade in electrical goods, cosmetics, clothing and accessories production, etc.

In February of 2025 Yuliia Khudiyeva also registered an “Agency of Virtual Assets.” It is stated that the agency engages in legal activities, computer programming, IT consulting and monetary intermediation. According to YouControl, in March of the same year the company became a Diia.City resident.

In 2025 Khudiyev received the position of deputy head of the Department of Organizational and Control Activities, Legal and Analytical Support — head of the unit ensuring execution of the Prosecutor General’s powers in a criminal proceeding.

Photo: Aydin Khudiyev / Office of the Prosecutor General

According to his declarations, in just over a year of entrepreneurial activity his wife earned 9,4 million hryvnias.

Earlier, the Anti-Corruption Center Mezha showed Yuliia Khudiyeva’s Instagram and drew attention to her luxury lifestyle. The woman’s page has since been deleted, but Slidstvo.Info journalists found photos that had been posted there.

According to SAPU, in the “covering offices” scheme Khudiyev agreed on necessary searches for the criminal organization to conduct in order to “stir things up,” intimidate the owners of fraudulent call centers and force them to pay for the “roof.” At the same time he helped ensure that investigative actions were not conducted in “friendly” offices of the criminal organization.

“I just say: ‘Why are you? Let’s not delay, then take them.’ Well, at any moment. Only what is needed there… We’ll negotiate with Aydin, we’ll allow everything,” — prosecutor Mykola Karas read out these words of Serhii Kropyva during a court hearing.

Slidstvo.Info journalists tried to contact Yuliia and Aydin Khudiyevs. Only Aydin Khudiyev answered the phone. He said he was in a meeting and would call back later, but after that he did not answer calls.

“Career success, asset growth, registering assets in relatives’ names — these are patterns that are indicators of money laundering”

According to SAPU prosecutor Mykola Karas, whom a Slidstvo.Info reporter spoke with, law enforcement is establishing whether FOPs were used to legalize money during the period when Serhii Kropyva worked at the Odesa RSA.

“We will now establish certain routes: how and when FOPs were opened, whether it was real economic activity, or whether it was similar to what we established at the end of 2025–2026,” Karas said.

He said the investigation is checking bank transactions, property registered to relatives and other trusted people, cash deposits to accounts and transactions that may have been fictitious.

“In essence, the accumulation of uncontrolled income — in half a year 7 million, conditionally, 8 — without economic substance. Consulting services, people supposedly remotely running some business, but in fact without specific staff. Running a business that in no way correlates with that person’s education,” Karas explained to the Slidstvo.Info reporter the indicators of FOPs through which money may be legalized.

The SAPU prosecutor noted that relatives’ incomes begin to grow sharply at the same time suspects acquire money from criminal schemes.

He said that from July of 2023 the subjects could have been legalizing bribes and kickbacks received while working at the Odesa RSA.

Karas also said that Ivan Tymoshenko and Aydin Khudiyev currently do not have suspect status in this proceeding, although their names appear in conversations related to the call centers’ activities.

In the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General Slidstvo.Info was told that on 5 September a service investigation into the subjects of “Carthage” began. In particular, they are checking the actions of Serhii Kropyva, who is now in pretrial detention, and Ivan Tymoshenko. There are no results of the investigation yet. However, on 11 September Tymoshenko was dismissed from the prosecution bodies at his own request.

Regarding Khudiyev, a service investigation began already in early August because the Qualification and Disciplinary Commission of Prosecutors opened disciplinary proceedings against him. There are no results of that service investigation yet.