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The former General Prosecutor of Ukraine, Ruslan Kravchenko, crossed the state border in a premium-class car, even though the travel orders stated that he should have used official transportation. At the start of September, the ex-prosecutor found himself at the center of a scandal involving suspicions toward NABU and SAP officials, and shortly after that he left Ukraine. Now new details have emerged about that trip.
Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing law enforcement sources, that Kravchenko crossed the border in a premium-class taxi, although the documents for the trip stated that he was to use official transport.
Kravchenko departed via the Shehyni-Medika border checkpoint. In the order for a trip to Paris, which the ex-prosecutor signed personally, it was specified that official transport would be used, but he crossed the border in a Mercedes-Benz V-Class minivan. This vehicle is owned by the company Andreolli LLC, which provides premium international passenger transportation on demand.
The driver registered as a private entrepreneur was at the wheel. It is claimed that, given the nature of the transport, Kravchenko’s trip was not paid from the state per diem allocated for official travel.
Where exactly the former head of the Office of the General Prosecutor went after crossing the border is not known for certain. The publication's sources suppose that he supposedly chose between Austria and the United Arab Emirates.
Kravchenko has completely lost his status as a prosecutor.
The day before, the Office of the General Prosecutor said that Ruslan Kravchenko had permanently left the prosecutorial bodies. They noted that after dismissal from his post, in accordance with the law, he remained a regular prosecutor of the OGP. However, after the term of his business trip ended, Kravchenko did not return to perform his official duties. He himself submitted a resignation letter.
14 in September, the General Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko announced that he signed a suspicion against NABU director Semen Kryvenos. The latter he accused of forging official documents to obtain improper benefits and of fictitious adoption. And the person closely associated with the head of SAP, Oleksandr Klymenko, who is the subject of another suspicion, is accused of “influencing VAKS judges, offering them improper benefits, and assisting in evading mobilization.”
“This General Prosecutor has only one path: to be dismissed from office. I told him this very thing,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
During a briefing, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Semen Kryvonen, stated that he never received the suspicion that the suspended General Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko signed.
Kravchenko himself said that he left the country to, as he explained, “inform international partners about the real state of affairs in the anti-corruption system.” The media learned that he independently processed his own trip to Paris to allegedly participate in a hearing of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Earlier, Informator reported that Kravchenko left Ukraine on the night of 14 September, and MP Oleksii Honcharenko emphasized that at that moment the General Prosecutor still officially remained in office, since the Verkhovna Rada had not yet had time to make a decision on his dismissal.
We also wrote that Kravchenko was not the first General Prosecutor to leave the country under mysterious circumstances — something similar happened with Viktor Pshonka during the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 year.
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