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Russian secret services to probe whether ballistic missile failure was act of sabotage
Criminal case on Russian GRU battalion ex-commander’s murder transferred to court
Special investigation on leakage of information carried out in security forces of Russia’s North Caucasus
Fugitive General was brought to Ukraine together with US Vice-President, Major Melnichenko alleges
Former presidential protection officer demands arrest of ex-President, former SBU head and parliamentary speaker
Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security to pass into reserve
Bulgaria targets secret collaborators of Communist secret services in parliament
Bulgarian National Bank's first three post-communist governors exposed as Communist-era secret police agents
Russian secret services to probe whether ballistic missile failure was act of sabotage
The Russian security agencies will engage a probe to find out the reasons of last unsuccessful
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launch of the sea-based ballistic missile Bulava on July 15, to check up the version about possible act of sabotage by the manufacturer or at assembly of the missile, news agency RIA Novosti reports, referring to a source in the Russian secret services.
The test launch of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missile Bulava, “the main weapon of new generation of strategic submarines of the Russian Navy”, appeared a failure because of unplanned effect of the rocket’s first stage, leading to its self-destruction.
"The defective detail can get in the missile because of lack of an effective control of quality by manufacturer, or at direct assembly of the missile. But in this case, considering the state importance of acceptance of the new missile for the strategic nuclear forces of Russia, both that, and another possibilities will be regarded as a fact of sabotage", the news agency cites its source. At the same time the source has not excluded that defective details or units could get into the technological chain of manufacture of the missile as a result of criminal negligence that “also can be regarded as sabotage”.
The failure of the Bulava launch on July 15 was already the sixth failure of its tests. 650 enterprises of Russia’s military industrial complex participate in manufacture of the Bulava, according to RIA Novosti.
Criminal case on Russian GRU battalion ex-commander’s murder transferred to court
Two alleged collaborators in the assassination of the ex-commander of Russian military intelligence Chechen battalion Sulim Yamadayev, who was reportedly shot dead in Dubai on March 28, will be brought before a criminal court soon, Dubai newspapers are reporting.
The stableman of the Chechen President, Makhdi Lorniya, and a Tajikistani collaborator
Makhsud Khan have been charged with aiding and abetting other wanted suspects and will be prosecuted before the Dubai Court of First Instance soon, according to the Khaleej Times.
A Dubai police official has announced that the Public Prosecution believed Lorniya handed over the gun allegedly used for the killing to an unknown suspect who gunned down Yamadayev.
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Police earlier identified four more suspects involved in the killing of Yamadayev, one of them being Chechnya's Deputy Prime Minister Adam Delimkhanov, who - according to Dubai Police - masterminded the operation. According to article 39 of the UAE's Federal Penal Code No 2006, concerning international judicial cooperation, the Public Prosecution has taken legal action against the runaway suspects. The other four suspects at large are three Russians and a Kazakh, including Delimkhanov, a member of Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma. Dubai police in coordination with the General Department of State Security found the items used during the assassination in different locations in Dubai. The items included the alleged weapon, a golden gun believed to belong to Delimkhanov himself.
In its turn, Russian news agency Rosbalt cites the brother of Sulim Yamadayev, Isa, who alleges that Sulim is still alive and possibly will have one more surgery in the near future. He says he does not directly communicate with his brother as Dubai police have forbidden to him to use telephone, Internet and Skype. He says he receives information through Sulim’s wife.
Special investigation on leakage of information carried out in security forces of Russia’s North Caucasus
Russian security forces are trying to clear out who has informed mass media on identikits of suspects of assassination attempt of the Yunusbek Yevkurov, the President of Ingushetia, news agency RIA Novosti reports.
Some Russian mass media outlets reported yesterday that identikits of two suspects were made in Ingushetia. Security forces of Russia’s Southern Federal District have been trying to find out who has given the information on identikits to media.
"The one who has thrown this information to mass media is a traitor. At this stage of investigation such actions are excluded as criminals, having understood that they have been revealed, will try to destroy proofs or the customer will destroy the executors", the news agency cites its source in security forces.
Fugitive General was brought to Ukraine together with US Vice-President, Major Melnichenko alleges
The ex-chief of criminal investigation of Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior General Alexei Pukach accused of murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze was delivered to Ukraine by the American secret services, Moscow-based newspaper Komsomolskya pravda reports, referring to the version put forward by the former protection officer of the President of Ukraine, Nikolai Melnichenko.
«I believe that arrival to Ukraine of the US Vice-President Joseph Biden and Pukach’s detention are linked events. According to one of versions, the American secret services have helped to deliver Pukach to Ukraine. The skilled operative he perfectly knew how and where to hide … He could simply leave for Transdnestria or Moscow — we have enough «holes» at the state border. He had no problems to make new documents, to change appearance by means of plastic operation and to settle in any country», noted Melnichenko.
«I believe that there were interstate negotiations at a very high level … I wish to thank Valery Khoroshkovsky, deputy head of [Security] Service for Pukach’s detention. A brilliant operation. There are still professionals in Ukraine who are able to carry out active special operations”, Melnichenko pointed out.
Speaking about the so-called Melnichenko tapes with recordings allegedly made in the office of the President of Ukraine and concerning murder of Gongadze, Melnichenko expressed hopes that prior to the beginning of the electoral campaign the court would receive all materials.
Former presidential protection officer demands arrest of Ukraine' s ex-President, former SBU head and parliamentary speaker
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The speaker of the Supreme Rada (parliament) of Ukraine Vladimir Litvin can be brought to trial, the former officer of the presidential protection service Nikolai Melnichenko has said, according to Ukrainskiye novosti.
According to Melnichenko, detention of the former ehigh-ranking official of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine Alexei Pukach, accused of murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze, “can affect bringing Litvin to trial”.
Melnichenko considers that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) operation which resulted in detention of General Pukach, is directed safeguard him from possible threats to his life.
The former presidential protection officer stated that on July 23-24 he was going to picket at the General Prosecutor’s Office with the requirement of arrest of the former President Leonid Kuchma, former chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Leonid Derkach and Vladimir Litvin.
Gongadze’s widow Miroslava supposes that General Pukach will try to shift the fault on his dead accomplices, Ukrainskiye novosti notes.
On July 20, the SBU agents detained the ex-chief of criminal investigation of Ukraine’s Ministry of Interior Alexei Pukach in Zhitomir area. According to vice-chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Gritsak, during the questioning Pukach has named the customers of Gongadze murder.
Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security to pass into reserve
The special agents of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS) will return to the Interior Ministry. The agency will not be disbanded, but its functions will be reduced to monitoring the trade in goods with dual use, counterintelligence and analyses, daily Standart News reports. The top-level corruption will be investigated by the Interior Ministry
The news was announced by incoming Interior Minister of Bulgaria Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
He assured that the assessment of the agency's work does not speak in its favor and this opinion was also shared by the EU partners of Bulgaria.
It is the business of the Interior Ministry to combat organized crime, Mr. Tsvetanov said. He is working on amendments to the Interior Ministry Act, which will make the anti-mafia unit a separate service, not a department of the ministry. The new organized crime combat service will probably be headed by Vanyo Tanov.
In an interview for the Monitor, outgoing Interior Minister of Bulgaria Mihail Mikov says that the expert leadership of the Ministry should stay. Daily 24 Chasa writes that future Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has the most unenviable job of all ministers. The Interior Ministry is likened to a landslide, and the State Agency for National Security as a striker, waiting on others for passes to score, the paper notes.
Bulgaria targets secret collaborators of Communist secret services in parliament
Bulgarian members of parliament who have had past involvement with the security services of the former Communist regime will be prevented from holding top posts in the parliament and on committees, the legislature decided yesterday, the Sofia Echo reports. The paper notes that former "collaborators" will also be prevented from taking part in international parliamentary delegations.
The measure was initiated by the centre-right Blue Coalition, which is headed by the Union of Democratic Forces and Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria, and won just under seven per cent of the vote in this month's national elections. It was strongly opposed by the Coalition for Bulgaria in which a descendant party of the communists, the Socialist Party, is the dominant faction.
Opposition also came from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms whose leader, Ahmed Dogan, was fingered, alongside other prominent Bulgarians, by the Files Commission as having had past involvement with the communist-era security services, the Sofia Echo relates. The parliamentary decision has now been added to the legislature's rules of procedure but may not pass the test of constitutionality according to one parliament member, the paper adds.
Bulgarian National Bank's first three post-communist governors exposed as Communist-era secret police agents
The names of Ivan Drganevski, Todor Valchev and Lyubomir Filipov were added to the blacklist that the so-called Files Commission of Bulgaria has been preparing since its establishment ten years ago, Sofia News Agency reports. The newest revelation by the Committee on the opening of the archives of the former communist State Security police and People's Army is that three of the former governors of Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), the country's central bank, were linked with the former communist secret services State Security.
Dragnevski worked as a secret agent and informer for State Security in 1972-1978 under the codenames Gorast and Goras, the Sofia Echo expands. His successor at BNB, Vulchev, was registered as a State Security agent in 1973 and remained as such in State Security records until 1990 under the name Sotir. Filipov worked for State Security under the name Rover between 1972 and 1974.
It means that for the first eight years after the fall of communism, Bulgaria's central bank was run by people who had worked in some form with the former communist regime secret services.
A total of 309 post-1989 BNB employees have been checked, of whom 26 were identified as State Security collaborators, the Sofia Echo adds.
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