Ukraine's disgraced ex-prosecutor general moves to Austria, media report says
Ukrainska Pravda cited records from Austria’s Central Register of Residents. According to the register, Kravchenko and his wife are registered on 7 Jordangasse, apartment 12 in downtown Vienna.
Ukraine's former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko has reportedly relocated to Austria, according to the media outlet Ukrainska Pravda. The news outlet received comment request from Kravchenko, which will be published once received. Kravchenko was dismissed by parliament on September 15 due to a major corruption investigation.
He had initially left Ukraine on September 14, posing as an official trip to a conference in Paris. However, the organizers of the conference in Paris stated they had not expected him to attend, leading to suspicions that his trip was a cover to escape Ukraine and avoid potential charges. According to Austria's Central Register of Residents, Kravchenko, along with his wife, is registered at apartment No. 12, 7 Jordangasse, in downtown Vienna.
Jordangasse serves as the office for CS Corporate Services GmbH, a company that offers registered addresses, secretarial services, management services, and the sale of shelf companies to Austrian limited liability companies. There is speculation that Kravchenko may seek political asylum in Austria. Austria typically does not extradite Ukrainian citizens, and several former Ukrainian officials currently reside there.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau conducted a search of Kravchenko's personal office in early September as part of a large-scale corruption investigation into a scam call center protection racket operated from the Prosecutor General's Office. The investigation led to the charging of a top prosecutor associated with Kravchenko.
Kravchenko resigned on September 7, and his resignation was approved on September 14. Charges against Semen Kryvonos, head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, and an unnamed "close associate" of Oleksandr Klymenko, chief of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), were revealed as part of the investigation. These charges were later canceled by the Prosecutor General's Office, and Kravchenko was subsequently dismissed by parliament the following day.
On September 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Anton Kovalsky, the chief prosecutor of Khmelnytsky Oblast, as the acting Prosecutor General. Media reports indicate that Kovalsky may ultimately be appointed as the permanent Prosecutor General.
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