Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Anton Kovalsky as acting prosecutor general on Sept. 17 after parliament voted to dismiss Ruslan Kravchenko on Sept. 15.
- Ukraine’s National Anti‑Corruption Bureau conducted searches of the PGO and Kravchenko’s office in early September and has charged a senior prosecutor in a probe into an alleged scam call‑centre protection racket.
- The Anti‑Corruption Action Center published questions about Kovalsky’s family finances, noting his wife registered a business in 2023 and reportedly earned Hr 5.2 million in its first year and that Kovalsky’s mother owns a Vinnytsia apartment with limited declared income.
- One of Kovalsky’s deputies, Maksym Kuterha, failed official vetting and was dismissed from the prosecution service in 2019, later worked at the Economic Security Bureau, was named Kovalsky’s deputy in 2025, and faces watchdog scrutiny over recent asset purchases and family ties to a person charged by NABU.
- The change in PGO leadership raises fresh questions about institutional integrity and the independence of Ukraine’s anti‑graft bodies, and observers say the next steps to watch are formal vetting of Kovalsky’s team and the outcome of the NABU investigation.