Kravchenko reveals details of suspicion to NABU Director Kryvonos
Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko released a video detailing the prosecution's version regarding the suspicion of NABU Director Semen Kryvonos. According to Kravchenko, Kryvonos allegedly registered paternity of someone else's child to obtain amnesty in a criminal case about bribing students, and a few years later managed to have records about him as father removed.
In the video, Kravchenko published fragments of documents and the interrogation of the child's mother, which, according to him, became part of the investigation materials. The circumstances presented by the prosecutor general are the prosecution's version and have not yet been established by a court conviction.
The story originates from a case in 2008-2009. According to the materials cited by Kravchenko, Kryvonos was then accused under Part 3 of Article 157 of the Criminal Code of illegal influence on citizens' electoral rights. The investigation claimed that he, together with other persons, organized bribing of students of Kyiv universities during the election campaign.
Kryvonos himself has previously denied this version. During the competition for the position of NABU Director, he explained that he was a student self-government activist and, together with other students, opposed pressure from the university administration. According to him, the allegations about bribing students were untrue.
Kravchenko claims that during the consideration of the criminal case, Kryvonos allegedly decided to create a legal basis for applying amnesty. According to the investigation, an unmarried woman with a child whose birth certificate at that time did not have a legally established father was found.
The video alleges that the woman was persuaded to file a joint application with Kryvonos to acknowledge his paternity. Kravchenko states that after entering the relevant data into documents, Kryvonos filed a motion with the Holosiivskyi District Court of Kyiv to apply amnesty, citing the presence of a minor child in his care.
According to the prosecutor general, on June 25, 2009, the court applied amnesty to Kryvonos and released him from criminal liability, after which the case about bribing students was closed.
Kravchenko also stated that in 2018, Kryvonos went to court already demanding to exclude records about him as the child's father. To the lawsuit, according to him, were attached results of a DNA examination that excluded biological paternity. The court subsequently granted this demand.
It is these circumstances that the prosecutor general cites as the basis for a new suspicion. According to Kravchenko, the investigation believes that the paternity documents were used to mislead the court and obtain amnesty. He said that Kryvonos is charged under Part 2 and Part 3 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code.
Earlier, Kravchenko reported that he had signed a notice of suspicion to the NABU Director, and later stated that the document was registered in the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations and sent in accordance with the procedure established by law. NABU and SAP responded by calling the prosecutor general's actions a continuation of a "systemic attack" on independent anti-corruption bodies and stressed that as of the moment of their statement, the suspicion had not been officially served on Kryvonos.
There was no separate public response from Kryvonos to the allegations about the circumstances of paternity registration made by Kravchenko in the new video at the time of publication.
Source: Ruslan Kravchenko, Ruslan Kravchenko's Telegram, NABU
