Araxamіya, a week before Kravchenko's statement, spoke about suspicions to the heads of NABU and SAP - sources

David Arakhamia / Vadym Sarakhan
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Head of the "Servant of the People" faction David Araxamіya, as early as September 7, at a meeting of NABU and SAP heads with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that then Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko had already signed or was planning to sign suspicions to NABU Director Semen Kryvonos and SAP Head Oleksandr Klymenko. This was reported by Ukrainska Pravda with reference to sources in political circles.

According to the publication, the meeting took place on the evening of September 7 amid a NABU and SAP investigation into the alleged "protection" of fraudulent call centers by law enforcement representatives and Kravchenko's resignation statement.

UP claims that at that time Araxamіya opposed the hasty dismissal of the Prosecutor General and tried to persuade them not to rush with a personnel decision.

It was during this meeting, as the publication's interlocutors assert, that Araxamіya informed the heads of anti-corruption bodies that Kravchenko had either already signed or was planning to sign suspicions to Kryvonos and Klymenko.

"Might trigger a suicide vest," - this is how UP's interlocutor familiar with the course of the meeting relayed Araxamіya's words.

According to "Ukrainska Pravda", this is how the heads of NABU and SAP were warned of possible procedural actions by the Prosecutor General. After the meeting, Zelenskyy, as claimed by the publication, decided to dismiss Kravchenko.

Exactly a week later, in the morning of September 14, Kravchenko released a address in which he announced the signing of a suspicion to NABU Director Semen Kryvonos. In response, NABU and SAP stated that Kryvonos had not been officially served with a suspicion and called Kravchenko's actions a continuation of pressure on anti-corruption bodies.

On the same day, it became known that at the time of the publication of the address, Kravchenko was already outside Ukraine. On the night of September 14, he crossed the border, explaining the trip as an official business trip.

On September 14, Zelenskyy suspended Kravchenko from the position of Prosecutor General. On September 15, the Verkhovna Rada approved his dismissal, after which the president signed a corresponding decree.

Meanwhile, information about Araxamіya's conversation with the heads of NABU and SAP is based on the testimony of unnamed sources of "Ukrainska Pravda". Araxamіya has not yet commented on it.

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