Operation "Carthage": former Prosecutor General’s Office official Tymoshenko notified of suspicion

As part of Operation "Carthage", a former head of a department at the Office of the Prosecutor General has been notified of suspicion.

Censor.NET reports this, citing the press service of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

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The Anti-Corruption Action Centre reports that the suspect is Ivan Tymoshenko, former head of the Information Technology Department at the Office of the Prosecutor General.

According to NABU, the former official played a key role in the operation of the criminal scheme.

The total documented amount of undue benefit exceeds UAH 1 billion.

Investigative actions are ongoing, and authorities are identifying other people involved in the criminal organisation’s activities.

Operation "Carthage"

Earlier, Ukrainska Pravda, citing its own sources, reported that NABU and SAPO were allegedly conducting searches targeting Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, his deputy Mariia Vdovychenko, and Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration (RMA) Oleh Kiper.
On 4 September, NABU and SAPO reported the alleged "protection" by the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of a network of so-called call centers that defraud people.
According to media reports, NABU and SAPO detained Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the PGO’s Department of International Legal Cooperation.
Before taking up his current position at the PGO, Kropyva served as deputy head of the Odesa Regional State Administration on Oleh Kiper’s team.
Against this backdrop, NABU announced a new operation called "Carthage."
The Prosecutor General’s Office stated that it would suspend the employee whose possible involvement in "protecting a network" of fraudulent call centers and laundering assets is being investigated.
According to updated information, NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) uncovered a criminal organisation whose members systematically received bribes from fraudulent call centres and laundered millions. The organiser of the scheme was identified as the head of one of the Prosecutor General’s Office divisions.
Recordings of the criminal group of Prosecutor General’s Office employees were also released.
The Prosecutor General’s Office later confirmed searches at the premises of Prosecutor General Kravchenko and his deputy.
The High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a pretrial restraint measure on Prosecutor General’s Office official Kropyva.
On September 7, Ivakhnenko was remanded in custody with bail set at UAH 20 million.
On the evening of 7 September, Kravchenko resigned from his post as Prosecutor General.
Following him, Deputy Prosecutor General Mariia Vdovychenko, who is implicated in the anti-corruption bodies’ investigation, also resigned from the Prosecutor General’s Office.