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Odessan businessman Volodymyr Halanternyk could have helped former General Prosecutor of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko settle in Austria. In addition, alleged associates contacted the police with testimonies against the investigative team of the journalists.
He could also have been one of the participants in the attack on the NABU and SAP in the summer 2025 of the year. This is what “Ukrainska Pravda” writes.
What is known about Halanternyk’s involvement?
Sources of the publication in political and business circles call Volodymyr Halanternyk a person close to Ruslan Kravchenko. The Odessa businessman himself has long been hiding abroad due to a suspicion of causing massive losses to the city of Odesa.
Conversational partners in anti-corruption bodies also do not exclude the involvement of the defendant in NABU and SAP investigations in the unpublicized attack on these bodies in July 2025. According to law enforcement, he could have testified against anti-corruption activists, in particular in the proceedings regarding deputy Fedor Khrystenko, who was one of the defendants in the attack on NABU and SAP last summer.
Journalists also suspect that it was Halanternyk’s entourage that could have provided Austrian law enforcement with false information about their activities. After the investigation team arrived at the house in Vienna where Kravchenko could have lived, Austrian police received a report from people believed to be the businessman's employees.
From the investigative materials in our editor's possession, one can conclude that the testimonies against our filming group, the Ukrainian Pravda team, could have been given precisely by representatives of the same Halanternyk’s staff: the assistant to the head of the property and probably Halanternyk’s own driver.
– journalist Mykhailo Tkach said.
One witness complained to police about surveillance, not mentioning that a man resembling the businessman gave a ride to the city center. Another witness told law enforcement about filming by the investigative team’s car and pointed to the external resemblance of the operator to wanted persons.
During checks through the Central Registry of Places of Residence, Austrian investigators confirmed that the sought Ukrainian official was officially registered at the specified address.
A request to ZMR showed that the target person was registered there. According to the person who called, the stories generally coincide and are quite reliable. An order for immediate release from custody is noted in the prosecutor’s service records.
– noted in the prosecutor’s service records.
The Austrian secret service had already taken the Ukrainian into protective custody in mid-September due to a threat to his safety. According to investigators, this person was the former head of the Office of the General Prosecutor.
Later, the former official himself accused anti-corruption bodies of trying to organize forceful actions against him in Vienna by order of the Presidential Office. NABU rejected these statements, explaining them by their intention to secure asylum in another country.
As a reminder, 8 in October Austrian law enforcement detained the UP journalist Mykhailo Tkach and cameraman Yaroslav Bondarenko near the former prosecutor’s house in Vienna. After clarifying the editorial task and checking the suspicion of espionage, the allegations were fully refuted.
As a reminder, Ruslan Kravchenko fled Ukraine 14 in September by his own order of business travel to Paris for the PACE session. He did not participate in the hearings and did not return to his duties after the trip term ended.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Одеський бізнесмен міг прихистити ексгенпрокурора Кравченка у Відні, – ЗМІ". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
