Șeful SBU își destituie doi oficiali superiori implicați în ancheta anticorupție „Cartagena”
Șeful Serviciului de Securitate din Ucraina, Oleksandr Poklad, a destituit la 4 noiembrie doi înalți funcționari ai SBU care au devenit suspectați în ancheta NACCU din cadrul operațiunii „Cartagena”. SBU a declarat că sprijină ancheta, iar Poklad a cerut un tratament transparent, obiectiv și imparțial.
Puncte-cheie
- Oleksandr Poklad a destituit la 4 noiembrie doi funcționari superiori ai SBU implicați în ancheta „Cartagena”.
- NACCU și Parchetul Specializat Anticorupție au dezvăluit o organizație infracțională cu cel puțin 12 membri.
- Organizația ar fi controlat cel puțin 52 de call center-uri de escrocherie din Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv și Ivano-Frankivsk.
- Plățile pentru protecția unui call center ajungeau la 7.000 de dolari lunar și erau transferate către un portofel crypto.
- NACCU l-a reținut la 4 noiembrie pe generalul Serhii Duk, primul adjunct al șefului departamentului de protecție a securității naționale din SBU.
- Anto Kravchuk și Oleksandr Kovalchuk were subjected to searches by NACCU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
- Potrivit NACCU, un oficial SBU a amenințat detectivii cu arma de foc și a împiedicat accesul la locul percheziției.
De ce contează
Destiturile reprezintă o reacție internă importantă a SBU la acuzațiile potrivit cărora doi funcționari superiori sunt implicați în anchetă. Операция «Карфаген» concerns allegations that a criminal organization linked serving law-enforcement officials to a network of at least 52 fraudulent call centers, drug trafficking, economic crimes and violence. Declared cooperation between SBU, NACCU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office may therefore influence scrutiny of alleged corruption inside law-enforcement institutions. Reports that an SBU official obstructed a search and threatened detectives with a firearm also raise concerns about cooperation and the conduct of the investigation.
Ce s-a întâmplat
Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior SBU officials who became suspects in the NACCU investigation conducted under Operation „Cartagena”. The decision was announced on 4 November. According to SBU, the agency is fully supporting NACCU and assisting with the procedural actions required in the relevant criminal proceedings. Poklad said he had spoken with the leadership of NACCU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and expected a transparent, objective and impartial investigation. He also called on the suspect known as „the Mexican”, identified by investigators as Russian citizen Yegor Burkin, also known as Yegor Levchenko, to come to Ukraine and surrender. Poklad said SBU would find him regardless of his location and that the agency was maintaining contacts with partner intelligence services to assist investigations in other jurisdictions.
Cum prezintă evenimentul sursele ucrainene
Ukrainian reporting focuses on the dismissal of the two SBU officials, the agency's declared support for NACCU and the anti-corruption prosecutors, and cooperation with partner intelligence services. Reports also highlight alleged links between the criminal organization and serving law-enforcement officials, including alleged protection of call centers, bribes, drug trafficking and violence. The Ukrainian framing also includes the institutional tension suggested by the reported obstruction of an NACCU search and the claimed readiness of the former prosecutor general to portray the investigation as politically motivated.
Unde diferă relatările
The supplied accounts differ slightly in how they date the dismissal decision. Some say it followed a new phase of Operation „Cartagena”, while others describe it as part of SBU's response to the wider investigation without specifying that sequence.
Context
Operation „Cartagena” was launched by NACCU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. Investigators alleged that the organization included serving officials from SBU, the Office of the General Prosecutor and the National Police, as well as criminal figures. The alleged organization operated fraudulent call centers, trafficked drugs, produced counterfeit cigarettes, circulated forged foreign currency and organized attacks and abductions. Investigators said at least 12 people were involved and that the organization controlled at least 52 call centers in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk. Call-center operators allegedly paid officials and criminal figures 7,000 dollars per month for protection, with payments routed through a cryptocurrency wallet.