The Prosecutor General of Ukraine accused the head of NABU Krivonos of fictitious adoption

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko accused the director of NABU Semyon Krivonos of fictitious adoption of a child.

According to him, Krivonos was found guilty of bribing voters in 2009, but was freed from punishment after a fictitious procedure.

MOSCOW, September 14 – RIA Novosti. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Ruslan Kravchenko, who resigned and left the country, published a video with accusations against the director of the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), Semyon Krivonos.

Earlier on Monday, Kravchenko said that he had prepared an accusation against NABU director Semyon Krivonos for forging official documents and fictitious adoption. Later, Kravchenko said that he left Ukraine, according to him, this was necessary to inform foreign partners about the situation in the system of anti-corruption bodies.

Thus, a video published on the Telegram channel of the Prosecutor General reports that in 2009, the Goloseevsky Court of Kyiv found Krivonos guilty of bribing voters in favor of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc party.

According to the Prosecutor General, in order to absolve himself of criminal liability and all charges, Krivonos decided to fictitiously adopt a child of a single mother. The accomplice found a single mother, and with her, Krivonos submitted an application to the registry office to recognize paternity and obtain a birth certificate, where Krivonos would already be indicated as the boy’s father. As follows from the published video, Krivonos later applied to the court for an amnesty, the court released him from punishment due to the fact that he had a dependent boy born in 2008, and the case of bribery of voters was closed. According to Kravchenko, in 2018, Krivonos went to court to remove the child’s paternity record from the state register.

NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) previously reported that they were conducting an operation to expose a criminal organization headed by an official from the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and involved in the operation of fraudulent call centers. Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko said that the deputy head of the international cooperation department of the Prosecutor General’s office, Sergei Kropiva, was detained.

According to SAP, participants in the scheme received funds from fraudulent call centers for non-interference in their work, which they then legalized through the purchase of real estate, valuables, and also under the guise of income of persons close to them.

On September 7, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko resigned.