PGO opens case against father and brother of Deputy Prosecutor General - Anti-Corruption Action Center

The Prosecutor General's Office has launched an investigation into the father and brother of Deputy Prosecutor General Mariia Vdovychenko.

It was reported by the Anti-Corruption Action Center, the Ukrainian News agency informs.

The Prosecutor General's Office has registered a criminal case against the father and brother of the Deputy Prosecutor General at the request of the Anti-Corruption Action Center. The proceedings are being investigated under part 1 of Article 111 (high treason) in the case of the brother, and under parts 1 and 4 of Article 111-1 (collaboration) in the case of the father.

According to the Anti-Corruption Action Center, Mariia Vdovychenko's older brother, Oleksandr Levandovskyi, was a deputy military prosecutor of Feodosia until 2014. In April 2014, he received a russian passport and then started working in the military prosecutor's office of the Central Military District of the russian federation, thus betraying his oath. The Anti-Corruption Action Center notes that Vdovychenko's father, Serhii Levandovskyi, also received russian citizenship in 2014 and started doing business in the occupied Crimea.

"Despite the Ukrainian citizenship declared by his daughter, Levandovskyi has a Russian passport, does business in Russia and pays taxes there," the Anti-Corruption Action Center said.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Mariia Vdovychenko, who was appointed as the Deputy of the Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, was involved in a property scandal. Prior to her promotion to the Prosecutor General's Office, Vdovychenko temporarily served as the head of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.