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In recent days, three surnames have again been placed side by side on the network: Semen Kryvonos, Iryna Mudra, Ruslan Kravchenko. Some say these are different cases and different years. Others see one logic. There have been almost no answers from the people involved. There is a detention, there is an escape abroad, there is a corrupt official in the chair.
About this — in the From-UA article.
Iryna Mudra is already in custody. The investigation speaks of raiding through state registries and laundered 150 millions. Ruslan Kravchenko, after the case about shielding fraudulent call centers within the Prosecutor General’s Office, ended up in Paris. Semen Kryvonos remains the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. There is no verdict. Responsibility is absent. The position remains.
That is why the question sounds straightforward: Kryvonos — is this a repetition of Mudra’s and Kravchenko’s stories, only without consequences?
In the 2008–2009 years it was not about an abstract “bribery.” It was about elections to the Kyiv City Council and votes for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. By a ruling of the Goloseyevsky District Court from 25 June 2009-th Kryvonos was accused under part 3 of article 157 of the Criminal Code: obstructing the right to vote by bribery, committed by a group of persons. The court recorded a scheme with students of Taras Shevchenko National University. In the materials — about 90 thousand hryvnias, 15 thousand, 22 thousand in May and another 75 thousand the next day. For a vote or participation in the campaign, allegedly 200 thousand hryvnias were paid. The sanction of the article is up to five years.
There was no verdict. Kryvonos filed a petition for amnesty: he had a minor child to support. The case was closed.
The child was named Maksym Khomchenko. He was born 4 May 2008 year. Kryvonos’s paternity was entered only on 17 June 2009-th — eight days before the court. In March 2026-th, mother Svitlana Khomchenko told Boryslav Bereza: there was no relationship; she was asked to help through a intermediary, explaining it was “for work, under a contract with America.” She said she did not know about the criminal case.
Later, a DNA expert conclusion appeared. The probability that Semen Kryvonos is the biological father of the boy was 0,00%. After that he went to court and removed himself from the birth record. In his statement he said he was convinced the child was his. Two versions. One worked before amnesty. The other — when the child became inconvenient.
At the competition for NABU Kryvonos called bribery a “myth.” If there was no bribery, the question remains: why was there amnesty because of the child, and not an acquittal?
The second episode — bribery for land. 2014 year. Kryvonos headed the registration service of the Obukhov City District Department of Justice. It was about 0,25 hectares in Tarasivka. The scheme, according to Prosecutor General Kravchenko, was this: the land was first transferred to a fictitious person, then sold to the intended buyer. The valuation — 149 thousand hryvnias instead of 345 thousand. In the Segue “Slidstvo.Info,” 2016-th named another figure — 120 thousand dollars for allocating the plot.
Kryvonos had searches. He was not formally charged at the time. The case was closed. He himself said that he appeared as a witness and gave explanations twice. There is no verdict. But the archive was revived again amid internal squabbles.
Separately — competitions. 2016-th he won the Odessa Territorial NABU directorate and withdrew his candidacy after a material about property and an old case. 2023-th the government appointed him director of the DBR. Former SAP prosecutor Stanislav Bronevytsky later stated: the competition was scripted, the vice prime minister asked to consider two candidates “in priority,” one of them — Kryvonos. “Without external interference he would never head NABU.” SAP does not have a full reference in open access.
Mudra is on trial. Kravchenko fled. Kryvonos leads the body that should catch people like them and himself.
This is not three random surnames in one feed. This is one corrupt system in which power becomes a private tool. In Kryvonos, the tool could be another person’s child in court. In Mudra, according to the investigation, a state registry. In Kravchenko, an agency from which he left not with a quarrel, but with an archive and a ticket.
All three are closed not by facts, but by status: no delivered document, no admitted guilt, no official name on the tape. For the director of NABU, this is not enough. While he sits in the chair, the parallel with Mudra and Kravchenko persists not in emotion. It rests on the fact that the system punished not all equally.
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