Names of candidates for deputy prosecutors Kravchenko named
24 June 13:48
New faces may appear in the team of the newly appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko. People’s Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko has announced the names of candidates who are currently being considered for the positions of Deputy Prosecutors General, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
According to Goncharenko, the candidates for key positions in the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office are:
- head of Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office Maksym Krym
- first Deputy Head of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office Maria Vdovychenko.
No official appointments have been made yet, but according to the MP, these candidates are being actively discussed within the leadership.
Who is Maksym Krym?
Maksym Krym was born on July 19, 1988 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Education: In 2010, he graduated from the Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy with a degree in Law, Master of Laws.
Career:
He started his professional career in 2010 as an investigator at the Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Sevastopol Garrison. In 2012-2014, he worked in the Sevastopol Prosecutor’s Office to oversee the observance of laws in the military sphere of the Crimean region.
In 2014-2015, he held positions in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Western Region and the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office – from prosecutor to deputy head of the department.
From 2015 to 2017, he was the head of the department in the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office for investigating crimes against national security.
In 2017-2018, he headed the first department of the same department. From February 2018 to September 2020, he was the First Deputy Military Prosecutor of the Central Region of Ukraine.
In 2020, he held the position of First Deputy Head of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the Military and Defense Sphere of the Central Region.
Since November 25, 2020, he has been the Deputy Head of the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Awards:
2015 – Medal “For Meritorious Service”, III degree (Decree of the President of Ukraine);
2018 – Medal of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “For Strengthening Defense Capabilities”.
What is known about Mariia Vdovychenko
Maria Vdovychenko was born in 1988 in Kyiv.
In 2009, she graduated from the Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine, and in 2012 from the National Academy of Prosecution of Ukraine, after which she worked as an assistant prosecutor of the Podil district of Kyiv, a prosecutor of the Podil district prosecutor’s office in Kyiv, a prosecutor of the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office, the first deputy head and head of the Kyiv Local Prosecutor’s Office No. 7 in Kyiv.
It should be noted that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine gave its consent to the appointment of Ruslan Kravchenko as Prosecutor General.
on June 21, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree appointing Ruslan Kravchenko as Prosecutor General.
On June 23, Ruslan Kravchenko officially took up his duties as Prosecutor General of Ukraine without bureaucratic traditions and formal introduction by the President.
Kravchenko’s priorities as Prosecutor General
In his first address in office, Ruslan Kravchenko outlined the key areas of work:
- Strengthening the role of the prosecutor’s office as the main coordinator of law enforcement agencies in the field of combating crime and the functioning of the criminal justice system in general;
- Ensuring real trust in the prosecution authorities both from our society, the public and our international partners;
- Control over the legitimacy of the use of budget funds, zero tolerance to corruption in any area;
- Creating conditions for the further implementation of effective guarantees to protect the rights and legitimate interests of business;
- Ensuring fairness in every criminal proceeding, especially those related to the national security of the state;
- Personal control over the effectiveness of criminal proceedings related to attacks on the life and health of children and minors.
What we know about Ruslan Kravchenko
Ruslan Kravchenko was born in 1990 in the city of Siverskodonetsk, Luhansk region.
In 2007, he graduated from the Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum. In 2012, he graduated from Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy with a degree in law and was promoted to lieutenant of justice.
From 2012 to 2014, he worked as a supervisory investigator at the Sevastopol Prosecutor’s Office.
In 2014-2015, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation under contract as a prosecutor of the 33rd Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern Region of Ukraine (in Debaltseve and Bakhmut). For this activity, he received the status of a combatant and was discharged from military service in 2020.
From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a prosecutor in the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. He was a prosecutor in the case where fugitive Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was found guilty of high treason and aiding and abetting war.
From 2019 to 2020, he was the Deputy Military Prosecutor of the Central Region of Ukraine.
From 2020 to 2021, he worked as the Head of the Department for Criminal Proceedings on Crimes in the Military-Industrial Complex of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the Military and Defense Sphere of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
From 2021 to 2023, he held the position of Head of the Bucha District Prosecutor’s Office in Kyiv Region.
In 2023, he took part in the competition for the position of head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
In April 2023, Kravchenko was appointed by decree of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the post of head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration. on December 28, 2024, he was dismissed from this position, and on December 31, he was appointed to head the State Tax Service.
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Personal life
Ruslan Kravchenko is married to Olena Shkrobanets, who used to work in the Prosecutor General’s Office. She was the Head of the Translation Department of the Legal Assistance and Extradition Division of the Department of International Legal Cooperation.
Currently, Shkrobanets is an administrative project specialist at the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine.
The path to the appointment
It is worth noting that Ruslan Kravchenko was called the future Prosecutor General in political circles even before the dismissal of the previous Prosecutor General, Andriy Kostin. Various media outlets, citing their own sources, claimed that there would be enough votes in the Rada to support Ruslan Kravchenko’s candidacy.
He was also predicted to be appointed even before he officially became the head of the Tax Service of Ukraine on December 31, 2024.
At the time, political and law enforcement circles said that such a career turnaround was unexpected for Kravchenko himself.
At the same time, it was said on the sidelines that the position at the State Tax Service was “temporary” anyway, and that the Prosecutor General’s Office had allegedly promised Kravchenko the post of Prosecutor General in the future.
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