Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed a caller acting authoritative general, aft the predecessor resigned implicit an anti-corruption investigation.
Anton Kovalskyi, 42, was appointed connected Thursday to regenerate Ruslan Kravchenko, who stood down past week aft searches of his offices by Ukrainian anti-corruption officials related to amerciable telephone centres successful the country.
Officials said they identified a money-laundering strategy led by an authoritative successful Kravchenko's office, a assertion helium rejected.
The probe into Kravchenko's bureau is the latest corruption ungraded impacting Kyiv during the warfare against Russia. Accusations person been levelled astatine respective members of Zelensky's interior circle.
According to Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (Sap), the web successful Kravchenko's bureau received wealth to support telephone centres that carried retired telephone scams and "laundered millions successful assets".
The wealth was past utilized to bargain property, jewellery, and different valuables, according to Nabu.
Kravchenko released a connection denying immoderate engagement and dismissing the allegations arsenic "completely unsubstantiated". He resigned a time aboriginal earlier leaving Ukraine.
He besides alleged documents were stolen during the hunt of his bureau with the purpose of covering up transgression investigations against anti-corruption officials themselves.
Separately, helium accused Nabu main Semen Kryvonos of forging documents successful a lawsuit astir 20 years ago.
Both Nabu and Sap denied Kravchenko's claims, portion Kryvonos dismissed them arsenic "nonsense" and criticised "fierce" attempts to disrupt corruption probes.
The 2 anti-corruption agencies claimed it was the latest successful an "unprecedented" run aimed astatine disrupting high-profile investigations they were conducting.
Nabu's Kryvonos besides claimed that anti-corruption detectives, their offices and vehicles were nether surveillance, without giving circumstantial accusations.
He added: "It each looks similar an effort to obstruct the enactment of Nabu and Sap by gaining entree to delicate accusation regarding planned investigations."
Nabu and Sap are presently investigating a fig of apical Ukrainian officials including Zelensky's erstwhile main of unit Andriy Yermak, erstwhile ministers and different influential people. Yermak's lawyer has described the allegations against the erstwhile authoritative arsenic "baseless".
In 2025, nationwide protests broke retired aft Zelensky tried to instrumentality reforms that would curb the independency of Nabu and Sap. Zelensky aboriginal reinstated their state but questions person remained implicit his committedness to anti-corruption reform.
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