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Three surnames stand side by side again not because it makes a good headline. Semen Kryvonos, Iryna Mudra, and Ruslan Kravchenko ended up in the same conversation because each, from their own office, displays the same method of power: first take what belongs to others, then hide behind status.
Iryna Mudra is being held in custody. The investigation speaks of raiding through state registries and laundering 150 million. Ruslan Kravchenko, after the case about a roof for fraudulent call centers within the Office of the Prosecutor General’s circle, left for Paris. Semen Kryvonos remains the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. The court did not convict him. He was not removed from his position. He did not have to answer on the merits.
This is where the parallel begins, one that can no longer be separated by years and case numbers. The details were compiled in a piece by From-UA.
In 2008–2009 Kryvonos was prosecuted not for “political activity.” He was accused of bribing students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv so they would vote for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in Kyiv City Council elections. The decision of the Holosiivskyi district court dated 25 June 2009 qualified this under part 3 of article 157 of the Criminal Code. The case involved about 90 thousand hryvnias: 15 thousand on 22 May and 75 thousand the next day. For a vote or campaign work they allegedly gave 200 hryvnias. It did not reach five years. Instead of a sentence there was amnesty.
The key to the amnesty was a child. Maksym Khomchenko was born on 4 May 2008. Kryvonos was entered as the father on 17 June 2009, eight days before the trial. The mother, Svitlana Khomchenko, said in 2026 that there was no relationship, they asked for help “for work, for a contract with America,” and she did not know about the criminal case. DNA testing showed: the probability of biological paternity of Semen Kryvonos is 0,00%. After that he removed himself from the birth record. Before the trial the child was needed. After the test — no longer.
At the NABU selection he called the bribery nonsense. So a simple question remains: why ask for amnesty through a son if one could have demanded acquittal.
The second storyline — a bribe for land. 2014 year, Obukhiv district, registration service, a plot of 0,25 hectares in Tarasivka. According to the version later published by Kravchenko, the land was to be put on a straw person for free and then resold. The valuation — 149 thousand instead of 345 thousand. “Slidstvo.Info” wrote in 2016 about 120 thousand dollars for allocation. There were searches. No suspicion was handed to him. The proceeding was closed. Kryvonos said he was a witness. There is no verdict. The archive was revived when an internal conflict in the system began.
In 2016 he won the competition for the Odesa NABU directorate and stepped down after a piece about his property. In 2023 the government made him director of the bureau. Former SAP prosecutor Stanislav Bronevytsky later said: the contest was staged, the deputy prime minister asked for priority for two people, one of them Kryvonos. According to this version, without intervention from above he would not have headed the bureau.
Mudra is on trial. Kravchenko fled. Kryvonos runs the institution that should be touching people like him. This is not a coincidence of the feed. This is one corrupt system. For him a stranger’s child could become a tool. For her — a registry. For him — an agency from which they take not answers but old folders and a ticket.
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