Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President’s Workplace, Prosecutor Basic Ruslan Kravchenko, and Dmytro Borzykh, a lawyer Kravchenko knew who has been served with a discover of suspicion by the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Workplace (SAPO), took half in a "particular operation" to destroy the independence of NABU and SAPO.
Supply: Ukrainska Pravda (UP) article Who carried out the particular operation to destroy the independence of NABU and SAPO, and the way?
Particulars: The article states that the appointment of Ruslan Kravchenko as prosecutor normal coincided with Minister Oleksii Chernyshov "deciding to not return" to Ukraine.
Chernyshov is a key determine whose residence and workplace have been searched by NABU and SAPO in late Might in a large-scale corruption case. On the time, the President’s Workplace already suspected {that a} discover of suspicion can be served.
The primary venture the President’s Workplace mentioned with Kravchenko was the destruction of the independence of the anti-corruption system.
The important thing "producer" behind this "venture", as with all different delicate selections, was the top of the President’s Workplace, Andrii Yermak.
A number of UP sources in regulation enforcement mentioned Kravchenko assured the state management throughout a gathering that he would deal with the duty.
On the day of the vote on Kravchenko’s appointment as prosecutor normal, rumours have been swirling inside regulation enforcement circles that considered one of his first duties can be to "rescue" Chernyshov by transferring the case from NABU to a physique managed by the President’s Workplace.
A few of UP’s sources in regulation enforcement businesses – each impartial and President’s Workplace-controlled – say that together with Kravchenko, Dmytro Borzykh, a lawyer and former deputy navy prosecutor, emerged in Ukrainian politics as a potential alternative for Andrii Portnov, a lawyer and courtroom fixer who was near the fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovych, after his loss of life in Madrid in Might 2025.
Borzykh and Kravchenko have identified one another since they labored collectively on the navy prosecutor’s workplace.
After leaving the prosecutor’s workplace, Borzykh went into non-public observe, founding a regulation agency that specialised in high-profile circumstances involving regulation enforcement officers, officers and the judicial system.
In response to UP’s sources, after he was appointed prosecutor normal, Kravchenko thought of Borzykh as a candidate for a senior place on his crew.
Nonetheless, this plan was derailed by the discover of suspicion, introduced by NABU and SAPO in April 2025, in a case regarding unlawful entry to the closed part of the judicial register.
The investigators discovered that Borzykh and his colleagues had commonly used a particular script to acquire details about labeled courtroom rulings, together with searches, earlier than they turned accessible to the events concerned.
Regardless of this, sources say Borzykh remained an off-the-cuff adviser to the prosecutor normal. He has no official standing, however continues to remain in contact with some within the prosecutorial group and takes half in casual discussions. Borzykh has been named as a potential advisor within the work on draft regulation No. 12414.
"A really well-written regulation. Solely somebody deeply embedded within the system might have drafted it," an influential Ukrainska Pravda supply throughout the similar system says. "The one downside is that there appears to be a miscalculation with the intuition for self-preservation."
When UP contacted Kravchenko, he mentioned: "Sure, I’m acquainted with Dmytro Borzykh – he was deputy chief navy prosecutor through the interval once I additionally served within the prosecution our bodies. Dmytro Borzykh was by no means thought of for the place of deputy prosecutor normal, no matter his private circumstances. As for contact – I’ve no contact with him."
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