Today, 6 September, a judge of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) remanded Prosecutor General’s Office official Serhii Kropyva in custody, with the option of bail of UAH 120m.
This was reported by the Anti-Corruption Action Centre. As became known from the broadcast of the HACC hearing, the preventive measure will remain in force until 2 November this year.
“A HACC judge remanded Prosecutor General’s Office official Kropyva in custody, with the option of bail of UAH 120m,” the statement said.
If bail is posted, he will be required, among other things, to:
- surrender his passports for travel abroad;
- refrain from communicating with certain individuals, including Prosecutor General Kravchenko, his deputy Vdovychenko, and other persons involved;
- appear at every summons by the detective, prosecutor and court.
According to the Anti-Corruption Action Centre, the hearing also established that Kropyva is suspected of laundering assets in two episodes:
- from August 2025 to September 2026 in the amount of UAH 41.7m; during this period he was already working at the Prosecutor General’s Office
- from August 2023 to May 2025 in the amount of UAH 48.2m while serving as deputy head of the Odesa Regional Administration.
As for Kropyva’s partner, the court is to choose a preventive measure later.
What Is Known About the Case
- Kropyva is deputy head of the Department of International Cooperation at the Prosecutor General’s Office. He is suspected of facilitating the activities of a network of fraudulent call centres and laundering assets. Among other things, Kropyva is suspected of laundering assets while serving as deputy head of the Odesa Regional Administration from August 2023 to May 2025. The case concerns the laundering of assets worth UAH 48.2m. For the record, the head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration at that time and to this day remains Oleh Kiper.
- NABU and SAPO announced on 4 September that they were conducting a special operation to expose a criminal organisation “headed by an official of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine”.
- According to NABU and SAPO, members of the organisation may be involved in providing protection to a network of fraudulent call centres and laundering assets.
- The Prosecutor General’s Office responded to the possible involvement of one of its employees in work with fraudulent call centres. It said all circumstances must be established by the investigation.
- According to NABU and SAPO’s investigation, in 2025 one of the heads of a structural unit of the Prosecutor General’s Office created and led a criminal organisation. Members of the organisation provided protection to fraudulent call centres, earning millions in income as a result. Five people are under suspicion. In a NABU video, the organiser appears as a Prosecutor General’s Office official referred to as the “Chancellor”, as well as “Boss”, “Muse” and other participants in the scheme.
- Overall, NABU reported exposing five individuals within proceedings under Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (creation and leadership of a criminal organisation, as well as participation in it) and Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (legalisation (laundering) of property).
- The Prosecutor General’s Office issued a statement on the need for a separate legal assessment of night-time searches that NABU detectives carried out in the offices of the Prosecutor General, his first deputy and other Prosecutor General’s Office staff.