After resolving the question of the judge's recusal, the HACC continues the hearing to set a preventive measure for another figure in Carthage Operation — the lawyer Oleksandr Dydych.

The SAPO prosecutor said Dydych is suspected of legalizing criminally obtained property. Specifically, the prosecution named the following unlawful acts by Dydych:

• he developed and carried out investment projects, notably in recreation, financed with illegal money from providing cover for call centers;
• he kept the books on Kropyva's assets — meaning funds criminally obtained from providing cover for call centers;
• he kept the books for fictitious individual entrepreneurs at Kropyva's request.

The prosecutor also read out the content of the communications between Kropyva and Dydych. The two discussed legalization and making the funds' origin appear lawful. After the July investigative actions in the separate criminal case over prosecutors' purchase of apartments in the Carpathians, the accomplices began worrying about their assets and actively discussed how to distribute them so that investigators and the court would have no questions.

The investigation says the analyzed conversations show that on accounting, the feasibility of re-registering properties, and other legal matters, Kropyva consulted specifically with Dydych. In the conversations, it is Dydych who recommends registering the driver Kutsyi's wife as an individual entrepreneur and re-registering the Polianytsia apartments to her.

The prosecution further said the investigation is convinced this was indeed a criminal group, given the clear division of roles among the suspects. Dydych's main task was to legalize property specifically through re-registration. Investigators have evidence that Dydych composed certain “cover stories” about the funds' origin, and Kropyva himself said more than once in the conversations that all the individual entrepreneurs were “under Sasha's wing.”