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Former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, together with his wife, moved to Austria and registered an official place of residence in Vienna. The couple reached Europe by land transport and concealed their actual living address behind a virtual office.
According to journalist Mykhailo Tkach of Ukrainska Pravda and the public organization Avtomaydan, the couple left Ukraine on separate routes without using air travel.
What are the details of the former prosecutor general’s escape?
Kravchenko’s wife 12 September crossed the border into Moldova on foot, after which she drove to Europe in a Mercedes through Romania.
The former prosecutor himself left on the night of 14 September through the Shehyni checkpoint in a Mercedes with a driver-carrier.
The official explained his departure as an official business trip for meetings with international partners.
According to Mykhailo Brodskyi, president of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine, the couple settled in the home of businessman Dmytro Firtash. At the same time, in Austria’s central registry Kravchenko listed an address in the historic center of the capital.
Registration to a PO box address
In fact, at the address on Jordangasse 7 there is not a residence but the office of the company CS Corporate Services GmbH. This firm provides domiciliation services, PO boxes, and registration of legal addresses.
More than two dozen companies are registered at the same address, among them entities Duracell Austria GmbH and KPLER GmbH.
In this way the former official concealed his true place of residence, violating Austrian law.
The organization Avtomaydan notes that Kravchenko prepared in advance to obtain protection and asylum in Europe. By signing a suspicion notice to NABU director Semen Kryvonos, he created the grounds to call any claims by anti-corruption bodies political revenge.
The case about covering call centers and the resignation
Recall, 7 September Kravchenko submitted his resignation amid an investigation by NABU and SAP into the shielding of fraudulent call centers. As part of operation “Carthage,” law enforcement conducted searches at the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Earlier we reported that the former prosecutor left Ukraine in a premium Mercedes-Benz V-Class taxi instead of using an official vehicle. In addition, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe denied the information that it had invited Kravchenko to its events in Paris.
Now living in Vienna are former Constitutional Court chair Oleksandr Tupitskyi and former National Bank head Kyrylo Shevchenko.
The Austrian capital remains a refuge for many former officials, since local authorities currently do not extradite suspects to Ukraine.
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