President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not yet have a nominee for the post of Prosecutor General. He said this at a meeting with journalists on 13 November.
He noted that the acting Prosecutor General only recently began work and may yet “prove himself”. Zelenskyy said he will submit a nomination for a full-time head of the office to the Verkhovna Rada as soon as he has made a decision.
Commenting on posts by former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who left the country even before his official dismissal, the President said:
“I haven’t read anything by Kravchenko. First, I don’t have time to read fiction. He is no longer the Prosecutor General, so I’m not following his life. I heard that he accused me and the Office, NABU and SAPO of persecution. OK. That’s what I heard. I haven’t heard anything else,” he said.
In September, Ruslan Kravchenko said he had signed a notice of suspicion for NABU Director Semen Kryvonos, and it emerged that he did so after leaving Ukraine under the pretext of a business trip. The Prosecutor General’s Office later said no such notice of suspicion exists. Kravchenko periodically posts accusations of persecution.
Since 17 September, the acting Prosecutor General has been Anton Kovalskyi, the former head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
The President submitted a motion to dismiss Kravchenko only after he had left the country. Although Kravchenko had written a resignation letter earlier, after a conversation with Zelenskyy amid an investigation into the activities of a criminal organisation within the Prosecutor General’s Office that, in exchange for bribes, facilitated the operation of fraudulent call centres.