Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on September 15 that formally removed Ruslan Kravchenko after the Verkhovna Rada voted to support his dismissal.
- Kravchenko had offered his resignation on September 7 and was suspended by presidential order before Parliament acted.
- Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP), say they uncovered an organised fraud network operating illegal call centers that led to the recent actions.
- A court placed two suspects tied to the case, Sergey Kropiva and Yelyzaveta Ivakhnenko, in pretrial detention with the possibility of bail as investigators continue to develop the probe.
- Kravchenko denies wrongdoing, has publicly accused NABU leadership and left Ukraine for a reported business trip to France, and the episode raises questions about oversight of the Office of the Prosecutor General and possible further investigations or prosecutions.