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Luke Harding in London and Amy Hawkins in Kharkiv

Ukraine’s prosecutor general quits after anti-corruption agents raid his office

Ruslan Kravchenko
Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, gives a press conference in Kyiv in July. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Ukraine’s prosecutor general has resigned after investigators used ladders to raid his office in connection with a major corruption scandal that threatens to embarrass Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ruslan Kravchenko quit his post on Monday after allegations that some of his officials were involved in large-scale money laundering. They received cash to protect call centres involved in illegal phone scams, it was claimed.

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