Ukraine’s prosecutor general resigned, accused the country’s top anti-corruption official of crimes, and left the country. What happens now?
Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree suspending Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko from office.
Kravchenko submitted his resignation on September 8 after anti-corruption agencies searched the Office of the Prosecutor General.
On the morning of September 14, Kravchenko posted a video statement saying that the previous week he had issued a notice naming Semen Kryvonos, director of Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau, as a suspect. Kravchenko accused Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies of unlawfully seizing materials from criminal cases against their own employees during the searches. Kryvonos, however, said he had never received the notice.
Zelensky responded to Kravchenko’s video statement, saying that dismissal was the prosecutor general’s only option and that he had told Kravchenko exactly that.
It later emerged that Kravchenko had left Ukraine in an official vehicle. He said he was on an “overseas business trip” and planned to “inform international partners about the true state of affairs within the anti-corruption agencies.”
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada must now vote on Kravchenko’s dismissal. The vote is expected to take place on September 15.
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