Kropyv commented on the NABU recordings in court and stated that he did not recognize his own words
During the court hearing, Serhiy Kropiva commented on the recordings included in the criminal case file. He stated that he does not recognize the phrases spoken in them as his own and asserted that he has “fought against evil his entire life.”
“Having read the transcripts of those statements or excerpts from those conversations, I want to say that these statements do not belong to me, and this will be proven by the relevant expert analyses,” Kropiva said. He also denied that the property described in the indictment belongs to him.
“It is worth noting that the property described in the indictment does not belong to me at all. I have no rights to it—it belongs to other people,” Kropiva said.
Separately, he emphasized his professional background and stated that he had never engaged in any illegal activities. “All my life, as a law enforcement officer, I have fought against evil. I have never been involved in corruption,” Kropiva stated.
Thus, Kropiva denies both that the statements cited in the case file were made by him and that the property mentioned in the indictment belongs to him. According to him, these circumstances must be verified through the relevant expert examinations.
This was reported with reference to the court hearing.
Kropiva and his associates have come under scrutiny due to new recordings released by NABU.
Prosecutor Kropiva, a subject of the NABU investigation, secured a pension of 300,000 at the age of 42 through the courts.
Earlier reports indicated that NABU and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) are conducting a large-scale special operation at the Office of the Prosecutor General regarding a case of alleged “protection” of fraudulent call centers.
Prosecutor General Kravchenko disappeared after the NABU and SAP operation began. According to UP’s sources in political circles, Kravchenko drove into the government quarter, after which no one saw him.
Later, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko resurfaced and stated that he had no connection whatsoever to the cover-up of illegal call centers and had not given any instructions to facilitate their operations.
