Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
There are several priority areas of work at the SIB.
Among them, the most "tasty" are the excise division and the unit combating conversion centers.
And instead of working on these highest-priority areas, under Tsyvinsky’s leadership the SIB is actively going after petty amounts.
And the reasons for this inaction, as they say, are on the surface.
Tsyvinsky has long been linked to the "Monaco Battalion" and notorious figures such as Serhiy Vyazmikin and Ihor Kupranets.
As they say, since Tsyvinsky joined NABU, these individuals have actively helped him, bringing in their friends from the tax and police lines, including the DSR in Lviv region.
During the competition for the director position of the SIB, the connection with Monaco somehow managed to be avoided and the media did not raise the issue.
Although both in police circles and in NABU the close tie between Honda (Tsyvinsky’s nickname) and Monaco has long been known and no one is surprised by it.
Sources in law enforcement say that, in gratitude for years of friendship, the SIB now turns a blind eye to a cigarette factory that is operating at full capacity in Ternopil region and is effectively owned by that same notorious battalion.
The factory once operated in Zhovti Vody, then in Hoshcha, and now in Ternopil region.
Under Tsyvinsky’s leadership the SIB actively ignores it and pretends it does not exist at all.
As for the fight against conversion centers — here too the balance favors that same battalion.
According to sources, Honda does not want to take on either the Puli group, or the Strelok group, Alexa Dnipropetrovskyi, or the DANN group, who are also linked to Monaco.
Honda also does not want to fight Kaufman’s monopoly on cigarette trade in the domestic market.
Such is the principled SIB named after a small independent state on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Better to chase petty amounts and spin yarns about reforms and rebooting.