Ukraine Prosecutor General Resigns Following Criminal Corruption Probe

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Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko is essentially the equivalent of the U.S. Attorney General. Keep in mind the Prosecutor General is the office responsible for prosecuting all the Ukraine government officials engaged in corruption, fraud and bribery.

Last week the Ukraine anti-corruption agencies, NABU and SAPO, said they had discovered a criminally corrupt operation running from the Prosecutor General’s office.

Today, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko resigned. Go figure.

VIA REUTERS – Sept 8 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s prosecutor general said on Monday he had offered his resignation citing political reasons, in the latest sign of disunity in the senior ranks of the Ukrainian ruling ?elite.

“This is a political decision, and I have made it consciously. I do not want the position of Prosecutor General to be used as an instrument of political confrontation,” Ruslan Kravchenko said in a statement on Telegram late on Monday, without elaborating.

Kravchenko thanked President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, and asked them to accept his resignation.

Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies, the NABU and SAPO, said last week they had uncovered a criminal organisation dealing with fraudulent call centres which was allegedly arranged by an official within the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Kravchenko has denied he was involved in the alleged scheme. “My position regarding the accusations remains unchanged,” he said in his Telegram post.

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A few weeks ago, Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko resigned. She too was under a corruption investigation.

A few weeks before that Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov resigned, citing internal struggles over “procurement priorities.” Meaning fights with military leadership about their payment and indulgency schemes.

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