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New vice-chairmen of National Security Committee of Kazakhstan appointed
Kazakhstan security services give out alleged attacker of Kyrgyz Prime Minister to Kyrgyzstan
Russian FSB former colonel Trepashkin to be released from custody tomorrow
One of accused in scandalous Three Whales case declared himself an employee of Russian secret services
Belarus KGB keep persecuting youth oppositionists
Czech counter-intelligence report says companies distorted results
Czech counter-intelligence service denies interest in CEZ power utility
Hungarian, Slovak security forces seized radioactive material suitable for a terrorist 'dirty bomb'
Security services of Georgia arrested leader of Azerbaijani diaspora
New vice-chairmen of National Security Committee of Kazakhstan appointed
According to the official online site of the President of Republic Kazakhstan, the head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, by a respective order has appointed new vice-chairmen of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan (KNB): Kabdulkarim Abdykazimov, Nurgali Bilisbekov and
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Vladimir Zhumakanov.
The press-service of the President of Republic Kazakhstan has confirmed that corresponding orders were signed by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, online paper CentrAsia reports.
Kazakhstan security services give out alleged attacker of Kyrgyz Prime Minister to Kyrgyzstan
Security services of Kazakhstan have given out Ulugbek Osmonov, accused of the organization of an attack on Kyrgyz Prime Minister Alzambek Atamabayev in May 2007, to law enforcement bodies of Kyrgyzstan, news agency 24.kg reports, referring to Tolekan Ismailova, director of humans rights defence centre Citizens Against Corruption.
According to her, Osmonov, a member of board of directors of the nongovernmental organization NGO Coalition and Civic Society, has been hiding the last some months in the neighbouring Kazakhstan, in the city of Almaty. There the representation of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees has given him the status of a person looking for political asylum. In May, when Prime Minister Atamabayev arrived to Dheruy local residents blocked the road and were throwing stones at the high-ranking guest in protest of opening a new mine in the area. Osmonov was accused as an organizer of the provocation, 24.kg adds.
Russian FSB former colonel Trepashkin to be released from
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Former Russian Federal Security Service colonel Mikhail Trepashkin will be released from a penitentiary in Nizhny Tagil on November 30, news agency Interfax reports, referring to the spokeswoman of the Sverdlovsk regional department of the Federal Service for Prisons and Penitentiaries Yelena Tishchenko.
Mikhail Trepashkin was jailed in 2004 for divulgence of state secrets after working with liberal legislators who suspected Russia’s secret police of involvement in a series of apartment bombings in Moscow and southern Russia that set off the second Chechen war in 1999 and helped bring Vladimir Putin to power. He was among the participants of a press conference in 1998, when the group of the FSB officers accused the leadership of the FSB of organization of custom-made murders. In 2002, he acted as a lawyer of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, killed at mysterious circumstances last year in London. Trepashkin has been connected with the Public commission on investigation of explosions of 1999 in apartment houses and office buildings in the city of Ryazan.
The court said that while serving with the KGB and later as an officer with its successor organization, the Federal Security Service (FSB), from 1984 to 1997, Trepashkin made copies of internal documents and stored them at home.
The Moscow District Military Court said he would spend four years in a convict settlement. Trepashkin applied for the release on parole after he had served a third of his time, Interfax notes.
One of accused in scandalous Three Whales case declared himself an employee of Russian secret services
The Moscow City Court has satisfied the petition of the Investigatory committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation and prolonged till February 13 the term of holding in custody of four persons accused in contraband of furniture, owner of the department store Try kyta (Three Whales) Sergei Zuyev, his business partner Andrei Latushkin, chief of sales department of furniture centre Grand, Yekaterina Leladze, and the ex-adviser of the general director of Rostek State Unitary Enterprise Andrei Sayenko, daily Kommersant reports.
Sayenko’s defence has made sensational statement that Sayenko is "an employee of special services". Defenders have asked court to make the lawsuit confidential as Sayenko wishes to tell information making state secret, however the court has given up to them, having prolonged arrest of the accused for 2.5 months. Zuyev’s lawyer has declared to the newspaper that he would not be surprised if "Sayenko will now announce that he as an employee of secret services had been introduced into Zuyev’s grouping and will demand a separate confidential lawsuit".
According to the former first deputy chief of the Federal Customs Service directorate of customs investigation and inquiry Marat Faizullin, who had investigated the Three Whales case, Sayenko has direct close ties with the top leadership of the FSB of Russia.
Interior Ministry investigator Pavel Zaitsev who started investigation of the case in 2000 told radio Ekho Moskvy that on November 22, 2000, in 1.5-2 hours after reception of evidence on the FSB Colonel Yevgeny Zhukov, adviser of one the deputies of the FSB Director about his relationships with Sayenko and Zhukov's counteraction to investigation, a supervising prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s Office arrived and took away the case materials.
On October 2, Lieutenant-General Alexander Bulbov and other Federal Narcotics Control Service officer were arrested Moscow Domodedovo airport by the FSB operatives; Bulbov and his colleague had been leading the agency’s investigation of Try Kyta (Three Whales), a Moscow furniture store accused of running a smuggling operation that evaded millions of dollars in duties on goods imported from China.
AIA reported about General Bulbov claims that the case against him has been inspired by the high-ranking employees of the Federal Security Service. "These actions are caused by feelings of revenge and fear before the subsequent exposures of the high-ranking officials of FSB of the Russian Federation, among them, first of all, Lieutenant-General Kupryazhkin A.N., chief of the Internal Security (9th directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation), the chief of 6-th service of the Internal Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation Feoktistov O.V. and his deputy Kharitonov S.N., as well as some others whom its is premature now to speak about ", Bulbov’s application said.
Belarus KGB keep persecuting youth oppositionists
Katarina Solovyova, a second year student of historical and philosophical faculty of Polotsk State University, a Young Front activist, has become a victim of Belarus State Security Committee (KGB) persecution, online paper Khartiya’97 reports. The girl was detained on November, 26, when graffiti “Nobody can stop us!”, “Long Live Belarus!” and others appeared in Polotsk.
The girl was questioned for several hours by the investigators on the criminal case brought up for disrespect to state symbols and participation in the unregistered organisation Young Front. The dean’s office received a telephone call from the KGB with the request to expel Solovyova, however, they had no formal order for expel as yet.
Policemen and KGB agents searched a room in the hostel, where Solovyova lives, according to Khartiya’97. They took away some leaflets and all data storage media. The investigators didn’t give her mobile phone back for three days and demanded to say the names of action participants.
According to Solovyova, Ales Krutkin, other youth oppositionist, was detained at the same place according to a similar plan, he was accused of “damaging the state property,” and the trial is to take place in some weeks, Khartiya’97 says.
Recently prosecutor’s office in Gomel area has closed cases for participation in an unregistered organisation against some activists of the Young Front, online paper adds.
Czech counter-intelligence report says companies distorted results
Czech counter-intelligence service BIS has revealed in its 2006 report that some state-owned companies that may soon be privatised, have distorted their results, news agency CTK reports, referring to the BIS online site.
"Our Service collected and evaluated information on companies of strategic importance for Czech economy, currently still owned by the state, but possibly to be privatised in the future, such as the Czech Airlines, Prague Airport, CEZ and CEPRO," said in its annual report. "The intelligence gathered gives reasons for suspecting that in the past their economic results were distorted with the purpose to prettify their true status," the report, posted on the agency's Web site www.bis.cz, said. The Czech version of the report said that the distortions were only found "in some cases", CTK adds. Officials from most of the companies named said they were not aware of any suspicions against them.
Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek told the daily Hospodarske Noviny that he did not believe the companies would cook their books. The secret service said that some of the distortions may only become apparent during, or after, privatisation, CTK notes. Asked about details, BIS spokesman Jan Subert declined to elaborate but said the agency was not currently investigating CEZ, the only listed firm among those mentioned by name.
Czech counter-intelligence service denies interest in CEZ power utility
The Czech counter-intelligence service BIS said the Czech power utility CEZ was not a topic of its interest, news agency CTK reports.
BIS thus reacted to the information according to which the counter-intelligence is investigating some of the Czech strategic companies, mentioning CEZ among them, of falsifying their economic results.
BIS spokesman Jan Subert told CTK that CEZ was not a topic of his service's operative interest. However, he declined to comment on the remaining companies that were mentioned in the BIS annual report for 2006 last week. "The service has obtained and assessed the information about the strategically important companies that are owned by the state and that could be privatised in the future (for instance, Czech airlines, Letiste Praha, CEZ and Cepro). It ensues from the information that the expedient distortion of economic results in order to present a company in a state better than reality took place in the past in certain cases," BIS said in the report.
CTK refers to an expert on intelligence work, saying that the BIS's analysis can be interpreted so that BIS really dealt with the general suspicion concerning CEZ in 2006, but that it has probably discovered no serious facts.
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Hungarian, Slovak security forces seized radioactive material suitable for a terrorist 'dirty bomb'
Three people were arrested late yesterday in Slovakia and Hungary for trying to sell about 1 kg of radioactive material in powder form, at unspecified locations close to the Ukrainian border in eastern Hungary and eastern Slovakia, news agencies are reporting.
Two of the suspects were arrested in Slovakia, and the third was arrested in Hungary in a special joint operation, news agency SITA reported last night.
Prosecutor general's office spokeswoman Jana Tekelyova said the gang was arrested with the full co-operation of the Hungarian security forces, after a long period of surveillance. According to preliminary information, the material could have been used to make a so-called dirty bomb.
Investigators believe it came from somewhere in the former Soviet Union. The location of the operation suggested that the material had been smuggled either from Russia or Ukraine. There have been long-time concerns that Eastern Europe could be a source of radioactive material for a "dirty bomb" designed to kill people by dispersing radiation, as security at nuclear-related industries deteriorated after the collapse of communist regimes in 1990.
In 2004, two former Slovak army officers were found guilty by a Czech court of attempting to sell uranium. The two were arrested at a hotel outside the city of Brno in November 2003 after they tried to sell three kilograms of the substance.
Security services of Georgia arrested leader of Azerbaijani diaspora
The president of the National Assembly of Azerbaijani of Georgia (NAAG), Dashghyn Gyulmamedov, was detained by the employees of the Georgian security services during crossing of the Georgia-Azerbaijan frontier, late on November 27, news agency Novy region reports, referring to the NAAG press-release. It says the activist has been violently set in the car and taken away in an unknown direction.
The Ministry of Interior of Georgia neither confirms, nor denies the fact of Gyulmamedov’s detention.
"We already earlier did not exclude a possibility of provocation by the Department of the Constitutional Security and Department of Counterespionage of the Ministry of Interior of Georgia. If the Georgian side will not soon explain their actions and will not release Gyulmamedov, the Azerbaijan diaspora in Georgia will address all forms of the protest ", Novy region cites Mekhti Musayev, one of the NAAG leaders. Presidential candidate Fazil Aliev told in an interview to news agency Trend that because of the arrest of the head of his pre-election staff, his pre-election campaign is „actually ruined”.
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