"Anti-corruption investigation included the office of lawyer General of Ukraine. According to media reports, 5 suspects have been exposed and charged with extortion and money laundering."

The Ukrainian National Anti-corruption Office (NABU) and the Specialist Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have revealed the activities of a criminal group suspected of protecting call center fraudulent networks and money laundering;

The group was to be headed by an authoritative of the Ukrainian Public Prosecutor's Office, informed NABU on its channel on Telegram.

This case is another from a series of high-profile corruption investigations involving Ukrainian officials and persons closely associated with Volodymyr Zelenski.

Earlier in August, the Ukrainian leader called off the deputy chief of his office, Irina Mudra.

Her home was searched as part of a US$3.3 million bailout investigation for erstwhile energy minister Herman Hałuszczenko, a key figure in a $100 million corruption case involving state atomic operator Enerhoatom and a multi-year business partner Zelenski, Timur Mindich.

Other fresh anti-corruption investigations afraid erstwhile Ukrainian ministers, diplomats and elder officials.

According to investigators, the crime group was formed and was headed in mid-2025 by a high-ranking officer of the lawyer General's Office.

This authoritative was to enlist in the conduct of acting prosecutors and co-workers; all of them regularly received bribes from fraudulent call center in exchange for enabling them to act undisturbed.

The funds thus obtained were to be laundered through the acquisition of real estate, jewelry and another assets.

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Over $500,000 was spent on real estate, valuables, and another assets, while another $300,000 in assets was hidden, passing it on to 3rd parties. According to reports from local media, another $250,000 was most likely laundered through bank accounts.

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Five suspects have been detained for participation in an organized crime group and money laundering, threatening to charge them with this activity.

According to the Ukrainian Truth, Sergey Kropywa, head of the cybercrime department of the lawyer General, has already been detained as part of an operation coded “Kartagina”.

The investigation besides included the Ukrainian lawyer General Ruslan Krawchenko, his deputy Maria Widowchenko and Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odessa Circuit Military Administration.

Only in August did anti-corruption authorities liquidate hundreds of fake call centers throughout the country; more than 400 searches were carried out at the time and over $2 million were secured.

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The heads of NABU and SAPO have late warned that corruption is inactive profoundly rooted at the highest levels of Ukrainian authorities. The head of the SAPO, Alexander Kłymenko, stated that the state has repeatedly proved the deficiency of "political will to fight corruption effectively".

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Last year, Zelenski tried to take over 2 anti-corruption organs with closer government control. However, he rapidly had to retreat from this step erstwhile he sparked nationwide protests and criticism from Kiev’s western allies.

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Moscow has long maintained that these scandals attest to systemic corruption in Ukraine.

Russian MFA spokesperson Maria Zacharova earlier this year stated that corruption "it penetrates the full structure of power in Ukraine, including the immediate surroundings of Zelenski and Zelenski himself".

Translated by Google Translator

source:https://www.rt.com/russia/645155-anti-corruption-probe-hit-Ukraine/