Today, 21 September, the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the preventive measure imposed on Oleksandr Didych, who is a suspect in the ‘Carthage’ case.
This was reported by the civil society organisation Transparency International Ukraine.
“Having considered the defence’s appeal by Oleksandr Didych, the Appeals Chamber of the High Anti-Corruption Court left unchanged the preventive measure selected for him on 8 September 2026,” they said.
As a result, Didych will remain in pre-trial detention until he pays the full bail amount of UAH 15 million.
TIU notes that NABU and SAPO suspect Serhiy Kropyva, the head of one of the units of the Office of the Prosecutor General, and his accomplices — including lawyer Oleksandr Didych — of creating a criminal organisation that ensured the systematic receipt of bribes from fraudulent call centres and laundered more than UAH 89.9 million obtained through criminal means.
- On 4 September, NABU and SAPO announced that they had carried out a special operation to expose a criminal organisation led by an official of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. According to NABU and SAPO, members of the organisation created in 2025 may be involved in providing “protection” to a network of fraudulent call centres and in laundering assets.
- Five people are under suspicion. The charges are Article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (establishing and leading a criminal organisation, as well as participation in it) and Article 209 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (legalisation (laundering) of property). In the suspects’ conversations, a “Boss” is also mentioned — a person who directed Kropyva. As of now, no suspicion has been announced against this person.
- Later, Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation as Prosecutor General of Ukraine and left Ukraine. Subsequently, on 15 September, Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree dismissing Ruslan Kravchenko from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine.