Overview
- Anti‑corruption agencies NABU and SAPO say they launched Operation Carthage after recordings and evidence tied a network inside the Prosecutor General’s Office to bribes from fraudulent call centres and to laundering of proceeds.
- Investigators carried out searches of PGO offices and detained or sought pre‑trial restrictions for several suspects, with deputy Serhii Kropyva remanded by the High Anti‑Corruption Court and given an alternative bail of UAH 120 million.
- Other defendants have faced custody orders with bail options, including driver Serhii Kutsyi with a UAH 3 million option and Yelyzaveta Ivakhnenko with a UAH 20 million option, and courts imposed monitoring and passport surrender conditions.
- Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko has publicly denied involvement, ordered internal audits and polygraph checks of relevant staff, and after meetings with anti‑graft chiefs and the president he submitted his resignation on Sept. 7 for political reasons.
- The case is being prosecuted through the High Anti‑Corruption Court and is likely to deepen scrutiny of Kyiv’s justice institutions as NABU and SAPO press criminal charges, a dynamic that could affect reform and political stability during Ukraine’s EU‑linked anti‑corruption push.