President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. — Ukrinform.
According to Ukrinform, the relevant decree No. 970/2026 is published on the website of the head of state.
As Ukrinform reported, on September 4, NABU and Sapo informed that within the framework of Operation Carthage, a criminal organization was exposed, which, according to law enforcement officers, systematically received bribes from fraudulent call centers and laundered the received assets
According to the investigation, an official of the Prosecutor General's Office created the group in mid-2025, involving current prosecutors and close unofficials. The participants demanded bribes for the unhindered operation of shadow call centers, which massively deceived Ukrainians and foreign citizens, according to the NABU.
On September 6, the then Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko issued a statement in which he claimed that he had nothing to do with the cover-up of illegal call centers. Kravchenko said that he had removed from office an employee of the PGO, who appears in the NABU investigation, and also instructed to prepare a personnel decision on his dismissal.
Late in the evening on September 7, Kravchenko announced that he had submitted his resignation from the post of Prosecutor General.
To partially amend Article 1 of the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated July 19, 2025 No. 501/2025 "On the Composition of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine" (with subsequent amendments) to withdraw R. Kravchenko from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine ", - stated in the document.