{"id":1440682,"date":"2026-09-16T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nabu-and-sapo-searched-the-house-of-former-head-of-the-tax-office-karnaukh-media\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:38:35","slug":"nabu-and-sapo-searched-the-house-of-former-head-of-the-tax-office-karnaukh-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/nabu-and-sapo-searched-the-house-of-former-head-of-the-tax-office-karnaukh-media\/","title":{"rendered":"NABU and SAP Search Home of Former Tax Service Chief Karnaukh \u2014 Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>On September 15, NABU and SAP searched Lesya Karnaukh, who previously served as head of the State Tax Service and as deputy to former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Ukrainska Pravda <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/news\/2026\/09\/16\/8053718\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> this, citing sources in political circles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to the publication, authorities searched Karnauch on the same day the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed her from her position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">As the UP notes, on the same day, former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko left Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Journalists contacted the NABU and the SAPO for comments on the search. Both agencies said they would not comment on the information.<\/p>\n<p>Other details, including the reasons for the search and the case in which it was conducted, are not available at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The day before, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyi-vidstoronyv-kravchenka-vid-posady-henprokurora\/\">removed Kravchenko as Prosecutor General<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Kravchenko <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/henprokuror-kravchenko-pidpysav-pidozru-dyrektoru-nabu-kryvonosu\/\">said that he had signed a notice of suspicion to NABU Director Semen Kryvonos<\/a>. NABU stated that Kryvonos had not been officially served with suspicion and called the Prosecutor General&#8217;s actions a continuation of a systemic attack on anti-corruption agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-ofisi-henprokurora-sprostuvaly-zaiavy-pro-pidozru-kerivnyku-nabu\/\">denied the claim that it had reported suspicions to the head of NABU<\/a>. They reported that the corresponding marks in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations had been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Also on September 14, it became known that Kravchenko <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kravchenko-poikhav-u-p-iatydenne-vidriadzhennia-do-paryzha\/\">went on a five-day business trip to Paris<\/a>. The purpose of the trip was stated to be participation in a hearing of the PACE parliamentary network.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 15, NABU and SAP searched Lesya Karnaukh, who previously served as head of the State Tax Service and as deputy to former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko. &nbsp; Ukrainska Pravda reports this, citing sources in political circles. &nbsp; According to the publication, authorities searched Karnauch on the same day the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1440678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1440682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440762,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440682\/revisions\/1440762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}