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Semen Kryvonos, who conducts high-profile investigations as the head of NABU, also faces many questions. They are not about the scandals created by NABU around Iryna Mudra or Ruslan Kravchenko, but are no less important. This is discussed in a publication by From-ua.
The first question concerns Kryvonos’s alleged involvement in the Kyiv City Council elections. In 2009 year Kryvonos was accused under part 3 of article 157 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine of obstructing the exercise of electoral rights by bribery by prior conspiracy of a group of persons.
The case materials mentioned students of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and about 90 thousand hryvnias. According to published documents, 15 thousand hryvnias were handed over on 22 May, and another 75 thousand the next day. The payment amounted to about 200 hryvnias per vote or for participation in the campaign.
However, there was no guilty verdict. On 25 June 2009 year the court applied amnesty to Kryvonos because he had a minor child in his care.
The story of that child has become one of the most sensational episodes today.
Maksym Khomchenko was born on 4 May 2008 year. Kryvonos formalized paternity only the following year. The new birth certificate, in which he was registered as the boy’s father, is dated 17 June 2009. Eight days later the court applied amnesty.
In 2015 year a DNA test showed 0,00% probability of biological paternity. After that, the record listing Kryvonos as the father was removed.
The boy’s mother, Svitlana Khomchenko, publicly stated in 2026 year that she had no relationship with Kryvonos. According to her, she was asked—through an intermediary—to agree to register the paternity, being told that the child was supposedly needed by Kryvonos "for work."
It is precisely the sequence of dates that gave rise to the version that registering the paternity could have been used to obtain amnesty. That motive requires legal verification.
Another story concerns a land proceeding in 2014 year. It involved 0,25 hectares of land in Tarasivka and $72 thousand. According to the case materials, the plot could have been registered through a front person and then resold. Kryvonos denies involvement: he says he was a witness, did not receive suspicions, and the proceeding was closed.
These cases are being tried to be forgotten. They recall the case of Iryna Mudra, whom the investigation suspects of involvement in raiding and money laundering, and the scandal around Ruslan Kravchenko after Operation "Carthage." Mudra denies the accusations, and Kravchenko’s involvement in the call-center scheme has not been officially established.
Three different stories. But the question is one: what standards of integrity should apply to those whom the state has entrusted to oversee others?
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