Kravchenko released “compromising information” about NABU Director Kryvonos

This is reported on Kravchenko's Telegram channel.

According to the Prosecutor General, Kryvonos adopted a child in 2009.

The video features key figures, namely “Janus”—Semen Yuriyovych Kryvonos, director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine—and “Rhea”—Svitlana Volodymyrivna Khomchenko, the mother of the adopted child.

Investigator: Why did this person—what is her name?—decide to adopt your son?

Rhea: Her name is Semen. As I understand it, he needed to have a child for work-related reasons...

Investigator: Did you have any kind of… relationship with Semen Yuriyovych Kryvonos—family, close, business, or any other kind of intimate relationship?

Reya: No, we didn’t have any contact at all.

The video refers to criminal case No. 1-519/09, in which Semen Yuriyovych Kryvonos is charged with committing a crime under Part 3 of Article 157 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Kryvonos was accused of acting in collusion with a group of individuals in June 2009 to commit an intentional crime against the electoral rights of citizens, allegedly by bribing students at Kyiv National Linguistic University and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

According to court documents, to carry out this criminal plan, Kryvonos and his accomplice were given 90,000 UAH, which was subsequently used to bribe students.

This case, as Kravchenko points out, would have prevented Kryvonos from being elected to the position of director of NABU.

In particular, Kravchenko cites footage from Kryvonos’s interview during the selection process for the position of NABU director. In the footage, the agency’s current director, when asked about bribery, responds that he and a group of students opposed the administration of a certain university because of its attempts to coerce them into voting for candidates who “were in the university’s interest.”

According to Kravchenko, it was precisely after the investigation into the bribery of students began that Semen Kryvonos sought grounds for amnesty—one of which is being the father of a minor child. To this end, the NABU director allegedly enlisted the help of an accomplice, who found him an unmarried woman who agreed to register Kryvonos as the child’s father.

The video states that Kryvonos and the boy’s mother filed a joint application with the Civil Registry Office to establish Kryvonos as the father and obtain a birth certificate listing Semen Kryvonos as the boy’s father. It is also emphasized that the birth certificate “is forged.”

In a post on his Telegram channel, Kravchenko added that the video shows only the first part of the story.

As a reminder, earlier this morning, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko stated that he had signed a notice of suspicion against NABU Director Semen Kryvonos for “forgery of documents.” The second notice of suspicion concerns a person close to Oleksandr Klymenko (head of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office).

Kravchenko emphasized that Operation “Carthage” was directed not only against him, and added that prior to signing the charges, he had been “politically restrained by the president.”

Meanwhile, NABU and the SAPO responded that they view the Prosecutor General’s actions as a continuation of a systematic attack on the independence of anti-corruption agencies.

For his part, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to Ruslan Kravchenko’s statement earlier that morning. The Ukrainian leader called on lawmakers to immediately support the official’s dismissal.