Ukraine's prosecutor general says he approved charges against anti-graft agency chief after resigning

Editor's note: This story is being updated.
Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who has submitted his resignation, had approved the charges against Semen Kryvonos, director of Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), he said in an addressed released on Sept. 14.
"I suspect (Kryvonos) of falsifying official documents in order to obtain especially large illicit benefit," Kravchenko said.
He also claims to have approved charges against a person close to Oleksandr Klymenko, head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), without naming them.
The statement came after Kravchenko denied any connection to a criminal organization running protection for scam call centers to launder millions of hryvnias, allegedly involving a senior official in the Prosecutor General's office.
The alleged criminal scheme was uncovered by Ukraine's two chief anti-corruption bodies — NABU and SAPO — on Sept. 4.
Kravchenko, long seen as a staunch loyalist of President Volodymyr Zelensky, resigned on Sept. 7 after NABU detectives exposed an alleged scam call center protection racket run from the Prosecutor General's Office
Kravchenko claims that Zelensky had previously sought to prevent him from approving the charges against the NABU chief. Kravchenko called on Kryvonos and Klymenko to resign.










