Ukraine's prosecutor general says he approved charges against anti-graft agency chief after resigning
"I suspect (Kryvonos) of falsifying official documents in order to obtain especially large illicit benefit," Ruslan Kravchenko said in an address.
Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who recently submitted his resignation, disclosed on September 14 that he had approved charges against Semen Kryvonos, the director of Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU). Kravchenko alleged that Kryvonos falsified official documents to obtain illicit benefits. Additionally, he approved charges against someone close to Oleksandr Klymenko, the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO).
However, NABU stated that Kryvonos had not yet been formally charged, emphasizing that Kravchenko's announcement was public rather than procedural. Both NABU and SAPO perceived these actions as part of a continued assault on the independence of anti-corruption agencies. Following Kravchenko's denial of ties to a criminal organization involved in a scam call center scheme, which was exposed by NABU and SAPO on September 4, he resigned on September 7.
Kravchenko claimed that President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously sought to prevent him from approving the charges against Kryvonos. Zelensky called for parliament to support Kravchenko's dismissal, stating that the prosecutor general had only one option: to resign.
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