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The former head of the Office of the General Prosecutor crossed the state border in an elite passenger minivan, ignoring the declared official transport. The exact location of the ex-official remains unknown at the moment, but several countries are being considered.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, citing sources in law enforcement, Ruslan Kravchenko left overnight on 14 September through the Schengen border crossing of "Shenykhis – Medyka". Journalist Mykhailo Tkach found that for the trip he hired a Mercedes-Benz V-class taxi belonging to the company "Andrelli".
Details of the overseas trip
At the wheel of the elite car was a driver registered as an individual entrepreneur in the transportation sector.
Interestingly, in the documents for the business trip to Paris that Kravchenko signed personally, the use of an official vehicle was noted. Accordingly, he paid for premium taxi services out of his own pocket, not from government per diems.
Where exactly the former attorney general headed after crossing the Polish border is currently unknown.
Our sources in law enforcement and political circles continue to say that he allegedly chose between Austria, Vienna, and Dubai,
— noted Mykhailo Tkach.
What preceded the dismissal?
As our site has already reported, about an hour and a half before leaving the country, Kravchenko officially refused state protection.
He tried to justify his trip by participating in hearings at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe regarding Ukrainian children. However, representatives of the assembly refuted this information, stating that they did not invite the Ukrainian prosecutor.
The official business trip of the official ended on 18 September, but he did not appear at his workplace.
By 21 September, the Verkhovna Rada definitively supported his dismissal from the Prosecutor's Office amid a scandal related to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau’s investigation into the 'covering up' of fraudulent call centers.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Ексгенпрокурор Кравченко виїхав з України на преміумтаксі замість службового авто, – медіа". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
