Prosecutor General's Office denies searches at Kravchenko's home and office

Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has denied that investigators searched Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko's home or office on the evening of September 4.

Mariana Haiovska, head of the office's Information Policy and Communications Department, said investigators carried out no searches at either location. Her comments were reported by Ukrainska Pravda.

The denial came after reports that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office were conducting searches at premises linked to Kravchenko, his deputy Mariia Vdovychenko and Oleh Kiper, head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration.

NABU and SAPO said they were conducting a special operation to expose a criminal organisation allegedly headed by an official from the Prosecutor General's Office. They said the group was involved in protecting a network of fraudulent call centres and laundering assets. Ukrainska Pravda, citing business sources, reported that the agencies had detained Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office's International Legal Cooperation Department.

The Prosecutor General's Office said it would fully cooperate with the anti-corruption agencies. It also said it would suspend an employee whose possible involvement in unlawful activity is under investigation.

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Investigators carried out no searches either at the Prosecutor General's home or in his office.