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Close relatives of the first deputy chief of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police, Volodymyr Tsenov, also worked within the Interior Ministry structure.
This is reported by Slidstvo.Info.
Volodymyr Tsenov was detained as part of the large-scale anti-corruption special operation 'Carthage' by NABU and the SAP. On the tapes he appears under the codename 'Price'.
The official’s father, Mykola Tsenov, previously served as the first deputy chief of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (HUBOZ) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, under Volodymyr Bedrykivsky. 2012-th, when Bedrykivsky ran for the Verkhovna Rada from Ternopil region, he was his trusted representative.
In addition, Mykola Tsenov was a co-founder of the public organization 'Citizens of Ukraine in the Fight Against Organized Crime,' which ceased activity in 2017.
Judging by the tags under which Mykola Tsenov’s number is saved in the Getcontact app, he may have been connected to the Servant of the People party. In particular, among the labels for his number are 'Mykola Volodymyrovych Tsenov Security Ze Servant of the People' and 'Mykola Volodymyrovych Zelens'.
Photo – screenshots from the Getcontact app
However, this is not the only tie between Tsenov’s father and the president’s party. In 2019 he transferred 500 thousand hryvnias to the Servant of the People’s account. At the same time, as Rukh CHESNO wrote, at that time Mykola Tsenov was not registered as a sole proprietor and did not have a registered business.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Tsenov’s brother, Dmytro, headed the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Kyiv region in 2016–2019. However, in June 2019, after the high-profile murder of five-year-old Kyrylo Tliavov in Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, he resigned. The boy died from a gunshot wound; local police officers were suspected of involvement in his death.
Dmytro Tsenov, brother of Volodymyr Tsenov
In his last declaration after dismissal in 2020 he listed himself as a pensioner.
Meanwhile, Dmytro Tsenov’s son, Dmytro Dmytrovych Tsenov, has declared himself since 2025 to be a cadet at the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Recall that on 4 November law enforcement officers detained the first deputy chief of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police, Volodymyr Tsenov, as part of the NABU and SAP operation 'Carthage.' In the published recordings of the conversations of the case’s figures he appears under the nickname 'Price.' According to the investigation, Tsenov was responsible for shielding fraudulent call centers from the police.
Volodymyr Tsenov during the selection of a preventive measure. 5 November 2026.
The operation itself concerns the exposure of criminal organizations that, according to NABU, provided services for fraudulent call centers and other illegal businesses in exchange for bribes to law enforcement. Among the figures are officials from the SBU, the National Police, and the Prosecutor General’s Office. On 5 November the High Anti-Corruption Court began consideration of the question of selecting a preventive measure for Tsenov. The prosecution is asking to place him in custody with an alternative bail of 20 million hryvnias.
On 5 November the court chose a preventive measure for Volodymyr Tsenov and remanded him in custody for two months with the alternative of posting bail in the amount of 15 million hryvnias.
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