Ruslan Kravchenko has been appointed governor of Kyiv region, the Office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyi reported on April 10. Independent Kyiv.
Currently, Kravchenko holds the position of chief prosecutor of the Buchan district of the Kyiv region. He ran for the position of head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), but the competition commission recognized him as not meeting the standards of ethics and integrity.
After the decision, Kravchenko accused himself of “subjectivism” in an interview on March 2 and asked the Commission to provide justification.
He also explained to the committee that the $53,000 in cash on his 2021 property statement was because he and his wife had been saving money from their paychecks since 2015. He also said he received a $20,000 bonus after serving in the Army for more than a decade. .
On February 17, the Anti-Corruption Center reported that Kravchenko received housing from the state in December 2018, to be privatized and sold in 2019.
Awarded the Order of Merit III degree (23.08.2022), reports “Ukrainian Pravda”.
Kravchenko was the prosecutor when Yanukovych was found guilty of treason and aiding and abetting the war.
Kravchenko replaced the former governor of the Kyiv region Oleksiy Kuleba, who was dismissed from his post on January 24 during a personnel reshuffle in the government, and then appointed deputy head of the President’s Office.
On January 24, due to corruption scandals in Ukraine, five regional governors, including Kuleba, and four deputy ministers were dismissed.
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