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The President of Ukraine responded for the first time to the revelations by detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine exposing a criminal organization in the “Carthage” case, which included officials from the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police, and the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, this week brought completely different news about the SBU — frankly unpleasant, frankly shameful, absolutely unacceptable things,” he emphasized.
The head of state indicated that there have been dismissals within the Security Service of Ukraine and new personnel decisions are being prepared. Zelensky said that it is necessary for the masterminds behind the crimes to face punishment. The president added that Ukraine needs partners’ assistance regarding the drug syndicate “Khimprom.”
“There is information that this criminal (referring to Yehor Burkin, who appears on the NABU tapes as ‘The Mexican’ — ed.) has already started his operations in Poland. There is also information that he is trying to bring synthetic drugs into Germany,” Zelensky reported.
The president also emphasized that today he approved a draft law aimed at restoring asset declarations for all employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, “so that their lifestyle is available for checks and accountability.” He called on parliamentarians to urgently vote for this bill.
4 November, NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, as part of the “Carthage” operation, uncovered a criminal organization whose members bribed senior officials of the Security Service and the National Police of Ukraine for the operation of fraudulent call centers, drug sales, and the forgery of euros. The founder and leader of the criminal organization is Andriy Osipov, nicknamed “Criminal.” The founder and leader of “Khimprom,” Yehor Burkin, appears in the case; in 2014 he received Ukrainian citizenship and changed his name and surname to Yehor Levchenko.
On the same day, NABU carried out searches at the homes of First Deputy Head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the SBU, General Serhiy Duka; First Deputy Head of Main Directorate “D” of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood, Oleksandr Kovalchuk; Head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU, Colonel Anton Kravchuk; and the head of the National Police in Kyiv region, Andriy Rubel.
Those who received suspicions include: Osipov, Duka, Deputy Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kyiv Region Main Directorate of the National Police Oleksandr Demyanchuk, First Deputy Head of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police of Ukraine Volodymyr Tsenov, and athlete from Zhytomyr region Vitaliy Rybalko.
During the searches, Alpha unit fighters were brought to Duka’s house; the SBU general smashed two phones and a hard drive with a hammer. He also threatened the detectives with the use of weapons.
The High Anti-Corruption Court placed SBU General Serhiy Duka, Deputy Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kyiv Region Main Directorate Oleksandr Demyanchuk, athlete from Zhytomyr region Vitaliy Rybalko, and First Deputy Head of the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police Volodymyr Tsenov in custody. A 15 million bail has already been posted for the latter. Today SBU employees received a message calling on them to contribute to collecting money for Duka’s bail.
ZN.UA’s domestic politics editor Inna Vedernikova, in the article “Security services from the lamp: can you contain the genie released by Zelensky?” previously reported that Kravchuk and Duka oversaw the forceful actions against investigative journalists at Bihus.info and NABU detectives. After Vasyl Malyuk was dismissed as head of the SBU, they adapted to Oleksandr Poklad. In February 2026 the President of Ukraine awarded Duka a new rank — major general (in 2023 he received the rank of brigadier general, and in March of this year the head of state awarded the same rank to Kravchuk). The Anti-Corruption Action Center stated that the new ranks for Duka and Kravchuk are their reward for attacks on anti-corruption agencies. They added that the president “bears full responsibility for the actions of the heads of the SBU’s rear services.” // ZN.UA
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