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The disciplinary investigation established that he used an invitation to the PACE General Assembly to travel abroad without proper grounds.
The Office of the Prosecutor General finished the disciplinary proceedings regarding the former head Ruslan Kravchenko. As a result of the investigation, the official was found guilty of using official position for personal gain.
This was reported by acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalsky, according to Suspline.
According to Kovalsky, Kravchenko used for travel abroad an invitation to the General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which was addressed to the deputy prosecutor general Viktor Logachov. He refused the invitation, about which the International Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General notified PACE.
Kravchenko drafted and signed the travel order himself, even though he was supposed to involve the International Cooperation Department of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
"When 14 in September they came to Kravchenko in his office, they found there the emblem stamp (Office of the Prosecutor General) and an envelope. In the envelope was the travel order signed by him and a copy of it," Kovalsky said.
He added that the disciplinary investigation revealed violations of several sectoral regulatory acts by Kravchenko. According to the acting Prosecutor General, the former head deserves disciplinary liability.
At the same time, Kravchenko did not cause material damage to the Office of the Prosecutor General. In particular, the investigation did not establish that he used official cars for travel abroad.
Kovalsky added that the question of bringing Kravchenko to criminal liability is within the competence of NABU and SAP, which are conducting a criminal investigation into corruption in the OPG, known as Operation “Carphagen.”
Operation NABU and SAP "Carphagen". What is known
5 in September NABU and SAP exposed a criminal organization operating in the Office of the Prosecutor General and involved in shielding illegal call centers in exchange for a bribe. The main suspect in this case, named “Carphagen,” is the deputy head of one of the departments, Sergei Kropyva. He is currently in custody along with others suspects.
14 in September Kravchenko unexpectedly announced the signing of a suspicion against the director of NABU, Semyon Kryvonos. It also turned out that he informed about this after he had left Ukraine on an “assignment” to Paris. Instead of Paris, the former official ended up in Austria—a country with difficult extradition to Ukraine.
Only after his departure did the president remove him from office, and the Verkhovna Rada supported his full dismissal. The Office of the Prosecutor General is conducting a disciplinary investigation into the circumstances of the departure.
Soon after his departure, Kravchenko began making accusatory statements against anti-corruption agencies and the president.
That Kravchenko is in Austria was reported by the UNIAN journalists. 9 in October Austrian law enforcement detained representatives of this media, Mykhailo Tkache and cameraman Yaroslav Bondarenko. They confiscated their phones and held them for more than half a day; force was used against Bondarenko.
The Prosecutor's Office in Vienna stated that the arrest of the Ukrainian journalist Mykhailo Tkach in Austria was not issued because of his profession, but because he was seen at a place also observed by two men suspected of espionage.
In total four Ukrainians were detained. The journalists were released, and two other citizens – at the time of publication of the news 13 in October – were not. Austrian law enforcement did not specify who exactly was detained.
28 in October, for the first time in a month, Ruslan Kravchenko posted a public message accusing NABU and SAP of organizing a group that allegedly planned violent actions against him. The Bureau rejected these accusations and called them an attempt to secure protection for Kravchenko in the country of stay.
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