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Ukraine's Prosecutor General Resigns Amid Corruption Probe
(MENAFN) Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko resigned Monday, days after anti-corruption investigators searched his offices as part of a probe into alleged protection of fraudulent call centers.
In a statement posted to Telegram, Kravchenko described the move as a "political decision."
"I do not want the position of prosecutor general to be used as a tool of political confrontation," he said, maintaining that his stance on the allegations against him had not changed.
Kravchenko thanked President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, for their trust, and asked lawmakers to approve his resignation.
The move came after Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) searched premises linked to Kravchenko, his first deputy Maria Vdovychenko, and other staff at the Prosecutor General's Office.
The searches form part of Operation Carthage, an investigation into an alleged criminal network accused of accepting bribes from fraudulent call centers in exchange for letting them operate unimpeded.
Kravchenko has denied any role in the alleged scheme, saying the accusations against him remain unproven.
The same investigation led to the detention of Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office's Department of International Legal Cooperation. A court on Sept. 6 ordered him held in custody, setting bail at 120 million hryvnias ($2.7 million).
In a statement posted to Telegram, Kravchenko described the move as a "political decision."
"I do not want the position of prosecutor general to be used as a tool of political confrontation," he said, maintaining that his stance on the allegations against him had not changed.
Kravchenko thanked President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, for their trust, and asked lawmakers to approve his resignation.
The move came after Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) searched premises linked to Kravchenko, his first deputy Maria Vdovychenko, and other staff at the Prosecutor General's Office.
The searches form part of Operation Carthage, an investigation into an alleged criminal network accused of accepting bribes from fraudulent call centers in exchange for letting them operate unimpeded.
Kravchenko has denied any role in the alleged scheme, saying the accusations against him remain unproven.
The same investigation led to the detention of Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office's Department of International Legal Cooperation. A court on Sept. 6 ordered him held in custody, setting bail at 120 million hryvnias ($2.7 million).
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