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Arrest of Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s Security Service ordered by Kiev court
Opening of secret archives in Ukraine shines light on famine, repression - newspaper
Terrorists who tried to create Islamist cell in Ukraine detained by SBU
Security Service of Ukraine clarify facts about clerics subjected to repressions
President of Kazakhstan presented state awards to security agencies officers
Russia’s Federal Security Service to supervise incomes of public servants
Jocic’s arrest shows that Serbia and Croatia can sometimes work together
Former chief, deputy chief of State Security Service of Serbia arrived in ICTY detention
Witnesses who claim that forbidden methods used in police taken to Security Service of Armenia
Lebanese terrorists arrested in Azerbaijan had relation to Iran's new terrorist offensive
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Arrest of Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s Security Service ordered by Kiev court
The Pechersk district court of Kiev has sanctioned the arrest of Tibery Durdinets, Deputy Chairman of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), for disobeying a court ruling and abuse of office, Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper reports today. The court also allowed the police to search Durdinets’s office in Uzhhorod, the paper adds. According to Ukrainskaya Pravda, the Prosecutor General’s Office’s submission was initiated by the investigative department of the Prosecutor’s General Office headed by Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin.
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko appointed Tibery Durdinets the Vice-Chairman of the SBU in October 2007.
On January 22, the Kiev Court of Appeal confirmed legality of cancelling of the decree of the President of Ukraine on appointment of Tibery Durdinets the Vice-Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) - the head of Directorate of struggle against the organized crime and corruption, news agency RBC-Ukraina reports.
Thus, the Kiev court of appeal upheld the decision of district administrative court which abolished the decree on appointment of Durdinets the SBU Vice-Chairman.
On December, 12, 2008, the Supreme Rada (parliament) of Ukraine supported a collective parliament members inquiry to President Viktor Yushchenko concerning dismissal of Tibery Durdinets from the Security Service of Ukraine. 391 members from 443 attendees voted for the appropriating decision. As it was underlined in the parliament members inquiry, abuse of office, contraband and corruption activity have served as the bases for firing of Tibery Durdinets.
President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko appointed Durdinets the Vice-Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) - the head of directorate on struggle against the organized crime and corruption on October 19, 2008. By other decree on the same day Yushchenko dismissed Valery Podboljachny from this post.
Members of the Ukrainian parliament appealed to President Yuschenko to dismiss Durdinets for abuse of office, contraband and corruption activity, a court ruling dismissed Durdinets from his post in November 2008, but he continues to work for the SBU.
SBU's press service denied receiving the order, and said Durdinets was on sick leave, Ukrainskaya Pravda marks.
Tibery Durdinets was born in 1959 in Mukachevo district of Ukraine’s Subcarpathian area. From 1986 to 1994 he worked in the police, since 1994 in the SBU. He was occupying leading posts in the regional directorate of the SBU, including the directorate on counterintelligence protection of economy and struggle against corruption. On December 27, 2006, was appointed the head of the SBU Subcarpathian area directorate. Tibery Durdinets is the nephew of General of Interior, Vasily Durdinets, who held high-ranking posts in the parliament and government between 1991 and 2002.
Appointment of Durdinets to the post of the SBU deputy head, supervising the struggle against corruption, was viewed by observers as deserving attention in the connection with the planned formation of a new law enforcement body, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBR). In particular the SBU’s Main directorate on struggle against corruption and the organized crime together with the similar divisions of the Interior Ministry and the State Tax Administration had to become the core of the NBR.
Deputy head of the SBU, Alexander Skipalsky, told the Kommersant then that appointments "were coordinated both, with Mr Pidbolyachny and Mr Durdinets". "They did not come as a surprise. Pidbolyachny earlier headed the SBU Subcarpathian directorate. In that time he twice promoted Durdinets. Now Pidbolyachny is remaining a member of the SBU Collegium.”
Meanwhile independent experts noted that promotion of Tibery Durdinets might had been connected with his „Subcarpathian origin". Speaking to the daily Kommersant, the former SBU deputy head Alexander Skibinetsky called this appointment "strengthening of the Subcarpathian vector in the SBU leadership".
Opening of secret archives in Ukraine shines light on famine, repression - newspaper
The Christian Science Monitor reports on declassifying of Communist secret archives in Ukraine. In January, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko ordered state archives to declassify, publish, and study all documents relating to Holodomor, the Ukrainian independence movement,
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and political repressions during the Soviet period from 1917 to 1991.
Vladimir Viatrovych, director of the archives at the state Security Service (SBU), estimates there are 800,000 documents from which to remove the "secret" seal. The aim of the work is to make the documents available at digital reading rooms across the country and the Internet, and to publish collections. Viatrovych says the publicity drive has already boosted interest, and not just among historians.
Unlike many ex-Soviet states, such as neighboring Poland, Ukraine has seen limited attempts at lustration, The Christian Science Monitor expands. The paper marks that Yushchenko's main focus has been on promoting recognition of Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
The opening of the archives has not passed without controversy. Olga Ginzburg, a Communist Party member and head of the state archives committee, claims that all necessary files have already been declassified, and has opposed the publication of archival documents, the paper notes. Viatrovych counters that this may be true of some archives, but certainly not of his. He is adamant that his work has more than academic significance.
Meanwhile Ukrainian historians complain that access to some Russian archives is much more restricted than it was in the 1990s, and numerous requests for cooperation have been rejected, The Christian Science Monitor adds.
Security Service of Ukraine clarify facts about clerics subjected to repressions
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have been spending work on clearing out of fate of the priests who were subjected to repressions under the Soviet authority and returning items of religious cult to churches, news agency RIA Novosti-Ukraina reports, referring to the head of the SBU press service Marina Ostapenko who spoke at a briefing in Kiev.
“The materials of twenty criminal cases which can be found in the archive are now reconsidered to return return to the world the names of the murdered clerics”, news agency cites Ostapenko.
She said that the security service also returned to churches items of cult belonging to them. So, at the meeting in the end of April between the head of the Vinnitsa area SBU department Yuri Artyukhov and the Archbishop of Turchin and Braclav, Ionafan, clerics received the religious relic, antimension (ectangular piece of silk cloth, typically decorated with representations of the Descent of Christ from the Cross, the four Evangelists, and inscriptions related to the Passion. A small relic of a martyr is sewn into it). It was withdrawn in 1937 from one of rural churches.
Terrorists who tried to create Islamist cell in Ukraine detained by SBU
Creation of a cell of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir was stopped in Ukraine, news agency Interfax reports, referring to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
"Foreigners tried to create for the first time in the territory of Ukraine a cell of this international terrorist organization which is forbidden in 29 countries of the world. The specified grouping on a deep secret basis tried to create a terrorist structure with precise hierarchical construction and precise distribution of functions among its members", SBU press centre head Marina Ostapenko told today at a briefing in Kiev.
According to her, nine persons enter in structure of the grouping who invarious time have had training special diversive preparation in camps in territory of the countries of the Middle East. For the future illegal activity the organizer of the cell involved citizens of Ukraine who have accepted Islam, agency adds.
"The activity of a cell, the so-called khalki, should be directed at creating of primary cells of the terrorist organization, propagation and propagation of Hizb ut-Tahrir ideology, preparation of potential terrorists", Ostapenko stressed.
She emphasized that at the assemblies these peoples have established rules of behaviour, spent employment on studying dogmas of the Koran, as well as works of the founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir, propaganda materials. Ostapenko said that currently legal examination of the printed materials withdrawn during a special action have been carried out.
Witnesses who claim that forbidden methods used in police taken to Security Service of Armenia
According to sources of online paper A1plus.am, an action is commenced under Armenia's Criminal Code regarding the evidence under compulsion by the prosecutor, judge and inspector. The information was confirmed by the spokesperson for the prosecutor-general's office, Sona Truzyan.
The suit is instituted at the National Security Service (NSS), and two witnesses for the case of MP Sasun Michaelyan, Edik Khachatryan and Arsen Mkrtchyan, have furnished testimony.
Edik Khachatryan and Arsen Mkrtchyan, along with another witness Yasha Melkonyan, announced that the police had used "alien methods".
Yasha Melkonyan went further in his testimony and said that he had been subjected to violence by Mr. Markosyan, deputy head of the police Hrazdan division.
After Melkonyan's announcement, Prosecutor Koryun Piloyan had motioned the court to file a suit under Article 341. The suit was filed, and the Special Investigation Service was instructed with the probe into the case.
Witnesses Edik Khachatryan and Arsen Mkrtchyan had announced that in the course of preliminary investigation forbidden methods had been applied. Cases have been instituted in the NSS on basis of the witnesses' announcement.
The Prosecutor General has assigned to take drastic measures to clarify all the details and to bring all wrongdoers to justice.
According to sources of the online paper, today police visited witnesses Romik Shahinyan and Henrik Hartenyan in order to bring them to court, however, none of them was at home.
Lebanese terorists arrested in Azerbaijan had relation to Iran's new terrorist offensive
Iran and Syria seem to be covertly supporting a new terrorist offensive against U.S. allies in the Middle East and the Caucasus, website FrontPageMagazine reports.
Azerbaijan has been targeted by Iran as well. The newspaper Al-Siyassa of Kuwait reports that "highly sensitive security sources" have disclosed that two Lebanese terrorists arrested by the Security Ministry agents in Azerbaijan, Najim al-Din and Ali Karki, were part of a cell run by Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. The two were arrested with forged Iranian passports and were planning attacks in Baku to retaliate for the assassination of Imad Mughniyah, a senior Hezbollah operative believed to have been the group's top terrorism mastermind. Mughniyah was killed in February 2008 in Lebanon.
Jocic’s arrest shows that Serbia and Croatia can sometimes work together
During the Slobodan Milosevic era, the Yugoslav security service was notorious for recruiting criminals operating in Western
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Europe to help contravene international sanctions, Balkan Insight writes, paying attention to the man known as Joca Amsterdam.
Sreten Jocic, 47, who has spent most of the last two decades behind bars, first returned to Serbia in 1992 “at the invitation of the diplomatic and security forces”, as he once put it. Jocic returned to “give up his contacts for the country’s needs”, as he said during an investigation into his involvement with a contract killing in Belgrade in the 1990s. At the time some elements of the media called him the “King of Cocaine”, but no evidence has ever been presented linking him with the drugs trade. The mythic power of this boss is legend, but it appears that there was always someone above him - someone who tipped off Bulgarian police in 2002, leading to his extradition to the Netherlands, according to Balkan Insight.
Jocic was arrested at his Dedinje home on May 27th following a joint investigation by Croatian police and their Belgrade colleagues. Belgrade’s media speculate that the whole action was synchronised by presidents Mesic, Tadic and Bulgarian President Parvanov. Police are investigating Jocic for alleged involvement in the October murder of Ivo Pukanic, owner of the Croatian magazine Nacional in downtown Zagreb.
Although he spent four years in jail, he was never charged with any offence and some wags speculated that he went to the Dutch prison voluntarily because he felt safer there.
After four years spent under investigation, the Netherlands turned him over to Serbia in 2006, when he was charged with organising a contract killing in the mid-1990s, though he claims he was framed by members of the security service. The District Court set bail at €300,000, which he posted despite at the time reporting a monthly salary of €600. He lives in the former home of Slobodan Milosevic in Dedinje and has been regularly seen at the most exclusive Belgrade clubs and cafes.Serbia’s media have alleged that he has underworld links in the country and the region, but no hard evidence of any involvement has turned up.
Even if it were once the case, his arrest in an internationally coordinated operation suggests that now, at least, he does not enjoy the support of the security services, Balkan Insight concludes.
Former chief, deputy chief of State Security Service of Serbia arrived in ICTY detention
The former head of the State Security Service of Serbia, Jovica Stanisic, and his deputy Franko Simatovic (‘Frenki’), as well as Veselin Sljivancanin, a former Yugoslav People's Army First Guard Brigade’s security officer, were placed in the Hague tribunal's Scheveningen detention centre last week, after being released to Serbia, Ekonomist Media Group website Emportal reports, referring to the court in The Hague.
Stanisic, Simatovic and Sljivancanin arrived at the Schiphol Amsterdam airport on a regular JAT Airways flight from Belgrade, and were transported to the detention center in Dutch police vehicles, accompanied by representatives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The trial against Stanisic and Simatovic is to begin on May 25, according to Emportal.
Jovica Stanisic, 58, the intelligence of Milosevic regime in former Yougoslavia, is on trial for his role in the Balkan genocide and is accused of setting up genocidal death squads, but he was also a valuable source for the United States CIA, the Los Angeles Times marked in a vast report.
Russia’s Federal Security Service to supervise incomes of public servants
State employees in Russia will send their declarations not only to tax bodies but also to personnel divisions of their organizations, and besides the tax specialists these documents can be checked also by other law enforcement bodies including the Federal Security Service (FSB), the chairman of Counting Chamber of the Russian Federation Sergei Stepashin announced in the interview to newspaper Vedomosti today.
Corresponding operative and search actions, including checks of conformity of cost of the property which owns the checked person will be provided, according to Stepashin who was making comments on a package of anticorruption laws which will come into force in 2010.
If you have worked all life in the ministries and departments and never in a private company and if you (or your close relative included in the declaration) has a three-storey private residence, one may ask for what money he has bought it, Stepashin noted.
President of Kazakhstan presented state awards to security
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agency officers
The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, presented a group of militaries, representatives of law enforcement bodies and national security agencies with the state awards of Kazakhstan for exemplary execution of military service in Akorda residence, Kazakhstan Today agency reports.
The state awards have been presented to Kazakhstan National Security Committee (KNB) employees who brought significant contribution to counteraction to threats and challenges of stability of the country. Among them are the militaries who took part in peace operations in Iraq. Among the awardees are - the military men who took part in peace operations and the employees of the law enforcement bodies who have shown courage and selflessness in extreme situations, news agency notes.
32 people have been awarded nominated by KNB, the Ministry of Defense and Internal Affairs, the president's guards service, and the Republican Guards.
11 people have been awarded Aibyn medal of II degree, 2 people have been awarded Aibyn medal of III degree, 3 people have been awarded Kurmet medal, 10 people have been awarded Erligi ushin medals, and 6 people - Zhauyngerlik erligi ushin, according to Kazakhstan Today.
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