Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office launched an operation targeting a criminal group led by a Prosecutor General's Office official involved with fraudulent call centers and money laundering.
Serhii Kropyva, deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office Department of International Legal Cooperation, was detained during searches at the Prosecutor General's Office.
The Prosecutor General's Office affirmed cooperation with anti-corruption authorities and stated the implicated employee will be suspended during the pre-trial investigation.
Authorities have conducted over 1,050 searches, shut down about 340 fraudulent call centers, investigated 147 criminal cases, and notified more than 183 people of suspicion.
NBA denied the information about the President ' s Office ' s searches; Alexei Goncharenko previously stated that the investigations there were conducted in parallel with the GCO searches.
NABU and SAP have detained the head of the Cyber Department of the Office of the Attorney General (GPO) of Ukraine in the case of the roofing of fraudulent col-centres, as reported by Ukrainian Truth with reference to the source.