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Former Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko explained a possible origin of the ties between Andriy Osipov ("Kryminal"), a figure in the NABU "Carthage" operation, and former SBU head Vasyl Malyuk.
He spoke about this on the air with journalist Iryna Romaliyska.
According to Lutsenko, the ties between Andriy Osipov ("Kryminal"), a figure in the NABU "Carthage" operation, and former SBU head Vasyl Malyuk could date back to Malyuk’s time working in the Zhytomyr region.
According to Lutsenko, until 2019 Malyuk held the position of deputy head of the SBU Directorate in Zhytomyr region and was responsible for the fight against organized crime.
"It’s very simple. Until 2019 Malyuk worked as deputy chief of the Zhytomyr SBU directorate, and his portfolio was the so‑called deputy for the ‘bandit line.’ In other words, his official duties included having agents among criminals — organized crime, one of the SBU’s important areas. And he had agents, as every operative does (and not fewer than a certain number of agents). One of them used the alias ‘Kryminal.’ The thing is, when a head of investigations is promoted, he typically hands his agent network to the person who replaces him. Here we see that this ‘Kryminal’ began to communicate not with the Zhytomyr SBU representatives, but with an entire chief of Directorate ‘K’ inside Department ‘D’ (because Service ‘K’ was liquidated and its personnel were brought in at a reduced status into the Department for the Protection of National Statehood)," the former prosecutor general said.
Lutsenko emphasized that he does not know whether Osipov directly contacted Malyuk after Malyuk was appointed head of the special service. At the same time, he pointed out that close cooperation between ‘Kryminal’ and Malyuk’s trusted associate Serhiy Duka is clearly recorded on the NABU recordings made public.
"And here a very simple question always arises. It arises for the interior minister, whose subordinate in an elite unit ‘protects’ a drug cartel; for the head of the Security Service, whose subordinate ‘protects’ a drug cartel; and for the prosecutor general, whose subordinate (the former deputy of the former prosecutor general Maria Vdovychenko, editor’s note) apparently ‘protects’ a drug cartel. They all face a very simple question: if you didn’t know about this, are you really that incompetent as leaders? If you did know about it, then it’s a catastrophe for the country’s law enforcement system," Lutsenko said.
Source: https://censor.net/ua/n4032470
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