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Acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalsky announced personnel changes in the prosecutor’s offices. As a result of an audit, 16 prosecutors in regional and district prosecutor’s offices were dismissed from administrative positions. A decision was also made to dismiss the deputy heads of the Kharkiv and Volyn regional prosecutor’s offices. This was reported by “Glavcom” citing Kovalsky’s statement.
According to him, the personnel audit was preceded by working meetings with the heads of divisions of the Prosecutor General’s Office and regional prosecutor’s offices, an analysis of their activities, and an assessment of management decisions.
Among the 16 prosecutors dismissed from administrative positions are the heads of the Vyshhorod District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv region and the Vyzhnytsia District Prosecutor’s Office of Chernivtsi region.
Orders were also issued to dismiss the deputy heads of the Khmelnytskyi and Volyn regional prosecutor’s offices. Separately, based on the results of working meetings and the assessment of activities, Kovalsky decided to dismiss the heads of the Kharkiv and Volyn regional prosecutor’s offices from administrative positions.
At the same time, all deputy prosecutors general who served under Ruslan Kravchenko remain in their positions for now, with the exception of Maria Vdovychenko, who was previously dismissed.
According to Glavcom’s sources in law enforcement agencies, among those dismissed is the deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office, Maksym Kuterha, who earlier became the subject of an investigative report by Ukrainian media.
The investigators found that in 2024 year Kuterha’s family acquired property whose market value is difficult to reconcile with the declared incomes. In particular, the official’s wife purchased a plot of land near Kyiv for 239 thousand hryvnias, on which a cottage of about 170 sq. m. was built. The family’s declaration also included a Porsche 2019 model year, which was later put up for sale for $64 thousand.
Journalists estimate that the total market value of the property acquired by the family during 2024 year could have been about $325 thousand. The prosecutor’s office explained the purchase of the plot and the construction of the house by the wife’s income from entrepreneurial activity.
As part of the personnel audit at the Prosecutor General’s Office, the head of a department and the chief of a department division were dismissed. In addition, the unit for combating criminal offenses in the field of cybersecurity was liquidated.
The Department for Oversight of Compliance with Laws by Agencies Combating Organized Crime and for Investment Protection was reorganized. The investment protection direction was separated out.
New heads were also appointed to the Department of International Cooperation and to the Department of Organizational and Control Activities, Legal and Analytical Support.
Kovalsky said that for now it has been decided not to use the option provided by the transitional provisions of law No.4555 to appoint, without competition, persons who at the time of appointment did not hold prosecutor positions.
He said that the legality of the procedure itself is not in question, but appointments already made are being checked for compliance with professional experience and position requirements.
The personnel audit at the Prosecutor General’s Office and regional prosecutor’s offices continues. Kovalsky also announced a further evaluation of managers’ work and changes in management processes.
Recall that in 8 September it became known about the dismissal of Deputy Prosecutor General Maria Vdovychenko. She submitted her resignation after the publication of materials by NABU and SAP as part of operation “Carthage,” in which she was also implicated.
Later, in 21 September, Ruslan Kravchenko was dismissed from the prosecutor’s offices. The corresponding order was signed by Acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalsky. After resigning as prosecutor general, Kravchenko remained a prosecutor at the PGO, but after finishing an overseas assignment he did not return to perform his official duties.
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