乌克兰「迦太基」行动:安全局少将被指为诈骗电话中心与毒品集团提供保护 搜查时砸毁手机与硬盘

基辅 — 乌克兰国家反腐败局(NABU)与专门反腐败检察官办公室(SAPO)11月4日宣布,在持续数月的「迦太基」行动中查出一个犯罪组织:多名现任高级执法官员被指系统性收受贿赂,为诈骗电话中心等非法生意提供保护。两局当天在全国执行70多次搜查,涉案组织至少有12名成员。
被调查机关点名的高官包括乌克兰安全局(SBU)国家政权保护局第一副局长 Serhiy Duka 少将、安全局内部安全总局局长 Anton Kravchuk 上校、安全局该局下属主任局第一副局长 Oleksandr Kovalchuk,以及国家警察战略调查局第一副局长 Volodymyr Tsenov。
据调查机关公布,该组织庇护的生意包括52家诈骗电话中心(共雇有2,700多名接线员,以乌克兰和欧洲多国民众为诈骗目标)、跨国毒品集团 Khimprom 的贩毒活动、假烟与伪钞生产,以及有偿实施的袭击与绑架。组织被指由有三次犯罪前科的 Andrii Osipov 与在逃的 Khimprom 创始人 Yehor Burkin 等人操盘。
搜查 Duka 住所时还发生持枪对峙。NABU 侦探部门负责人 Oleksandr Abakumov 11月6日介绍,侦探11月4日清晨持高等反腐败法院的搜查令,前往 Duka 位于基辅州一处村庄的住宅时遭遇持枪抵抗:屋内的安全局人员持自动步枪守在窗边,Duka 本人持手枪出现在二楼窗口喊话,其间在阳台上砸毁了两部手机和一块电脑硬盘。Duka 随后被拘。在高等反腐败法院审理强制措施的听证上,SAPO 检察官 Mykola Karas 称 Duka 在搜查时用斧头砸毁手机,检方请求法院将其羁押,并设1亿格里夫纳的保释金。
以上均为乌克兰调查机关公布的指控与说法,案件仍在调查中,尚未经法院审理认定。
(来源:乌克兰国家反腐败局)
Ukraine's Operation Carthage: SBU General Accused of Shielding Scam Call Centres and a Drug Cartel Smashed Phones and a Hard Drive During a Raid
KYIV — The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) announced on November 4 that, in the months-long Operation Carthage, they had exposed a criminal organisation whose members allegedly included current senior law-enforcement officials who systematically took bribes to let fraudulent call centres and other illegal businesses operate unhindered. The two agencies carried out more than 70 searches across the country that day, and the organisation had at least 12 members.
Senior officials named by investigators include Major General Serhiy Duka, First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) Department for the Protection of National Statehood; Colonel Anton Kravchuk, head of the SBU's Main Directorate of Internal Security; Oleksandr Kovalchuk, First Deputy Head of a main directorate of that department; and Volodymyr Tsenov, First Deputy Head of the National Police's Department of Strategic Investigations.
According to the agencies, the businesses the organisation protected included 52 fraudulent call centres employing more than 2,700 operators targeting victims in Ukraine and across Europe, the drug trafficking of the transnational Khimprom cartel, the illegal production of counterfeit cigarettes and forged currency, and paid assaults and kidnappings. The network was allegedly run by figures including Andrii Osipov, who has three convictions, and Yehor Burkin, the fugitive founder of Khimprom.
The search of Duka's home turned into an armed standoff. Oleksandr Abakumov, head of NABU's detective unit, said on November 6 that detectives arrived at Duka's country house in a Kyiv-region village on the morning of November 4 with a High Anti-Corruption Court warrant and met armed resistance: SBU personnel inside took positions at the windows with automatic rifles, while Duka appeared at a second-floor window holding a pistol and shouting, and in the meantime smashed two mobile phones and a computer hard drive on the balcony. Duka was later detained. At a High Anti-Corruption Court hearing on preventive measures, SAPO prosecutor Mykola Karas said Duka had destroyed phones with an axe during the search, and prosecutors asked the court to remand him in custody with bail set at 100 million hryvnias.
All of the above are allegations and accounts published by Ukrainian investigative agencies; the case is under investigation and has not been adjudicated by a court.
(Source: National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine)
来源:乌克兰国家反腐败局
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