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Arrest in Armenia of alleged Azerbaijan's spy is provocation: National Security Ministry in Baku
Radu Timofte, former Romanian Intelligence Service head, has died
Report of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security on corrupt ministers does exist – Prime Minister
President of Belarus made statement on 15th anniversary of Presidential Security Service
Lithuanian lawmakers demand probe into possible CIA prison near Vilnius
Latvian counterintelligence chief draws attention to former officials with access to state secrets
Cells of Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organization neutralized in Russia’s Bashkortostan
Arrest in Armenia of alleged Azerbaijan's spy is provocation: National Security Ministry in Baku
The National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan says reports about the arrest of a person in
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Armenia engaged in espionage in favor of Azerbaijan are nonsense, Trend News reports.
"We do not know this man. It is Armenia's another cheap provocation. We do not comment on such absurd reports," the news agency cites Ministry's spokesman Arif Babayev.
News-Armenia website reported with reference to the Armenian National Security Ministry that Gevorg Hairapetyan suspected of cooperation with the Azerbaijani special service was arrested in Armenia. The security agencies filed a suitcase on Hairapetyan under the criminal code article on high treason in the form of espionage.
Hairapetyan is a Lieutenant-Colonel in reserve. He was dismissed from the Armenian armed forces for a gross violation of military and service discipline in 2007.
According to the report, the officers also detained a foreign citizen, through which Hairapetyan contacted with the Azerbaijani special services, Trend News adds.
Both Azerbaijan and Armenia have occasionally arrested and prosecuted individuals for allegedly spying for each other since the early 1990s, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Armenian service. In one such case, a retired Russian army officer who had fought on the Armenian side during the 1992-1994 war in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested in late 2006 and subsequently convicted of passing Armenian “state secrets” on to Azerbaijan. The ethnic Tatar man, Rustem Valiakhmetov, initially confessed to the charges but retracted his pre-trial testimony in court, saying that it had been given under duress, RFE/RL notes.
In June 2005, a Russian-born Armenian citizen, Andrey Maziyev, was likewise convicted of high treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Maziyev pleaded guilty to the charges, unlike four other ethnic Russians who received lengthy jail sentences on similar charges in January 2004.
Radu Timofte, former Romanian Intelligence Service head, has died
Radu Timofte, former Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) chief between 2001and 2006, has died at the age of 60 on October 19, Romanian TV station Antena 3 announced. The information was confirmed for the online news agency HotNews.ro by SRI. Daily Adevarul reported that Timofte had been suffering from leukemia.
Ion Iliescu, ex-Romanian president stated that Radu Timofte was a decent, pertinent and common sensed person. Timofte belonged to the same political party as Iliescu and Iliescu was still the President of Romania when Timofte was named chief of the intelligence service. "Mr. Timofte ... was a model of devotion to his country and democratic values," the Romanian Intelligence Service said in a statement.
Radu Timofte was born in April 7, 1949, in Neamt county (North-East Romania). He graduated
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from the High Military Studies Academy in Bucharest, the College of Order and Major State. He was an active officer in the National Defence Ministry until 1988, when he became a reserve due to his sister’s illegal stay out of Romania.
Timofte was part of the FSN, the Front of National Salvation, committee leadership in Roman (Neamt county) after the 1989 Revolution. He was a senator during 1990 - 2001 on behalf of FSN, which later became FDSN and PDSR. He quit from the Parliament in February 2001 and was named chief of the Romanian Intelligence Service, a role that he kept until 2006. He was forced to resign in 2006 when Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born suspect in the 2005 kidnapping of the journalists, disappeared.
At the time of his death, Timofte was being investigated by anti-corruption prosecutors on suspicion of abusing his position to buy an apartment in Bucharest at a fraction of its market value. Supporters said the charges were politically motivated.
Report of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security on corrupt ministers does exist – Prime Minister
Sofia-based daily Trud quotes Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov as saying that there does exist a report by the State Agency for National Security (DANS) about corrupt ministers from the previous three-party cabinet.
The report in question has been a topic of a lot of rumors and doubts as to whether it existed at all.
Speaking in a talk show on Nova TV Prime Minister Borissov said the report existed and was authentic. He said he had ordered DANS to check in regard of which materials in the report the prosecuting magistracy has started investigations, whether such investigations have been halted and on what grounds.
President of Belarus made statement on 15th anniversary of Presidential Security Service
The foreign policy factors can influence negatively the situation in Belarus, according to President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko who spoke at at a solemn session on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Presidential Security Service, online paper Khartiya’97 reports. Lukashenko stressed that these foreign policy factors cannot be underestimated.
He stressed that "rigid suppression of criminal elements, effective and lawful repulse to any extremist actions menacing to calmness and well-being of citizens, should be in an arsenal of methods of work of the corresponding state bodies". Lukashenko specified that it concerns not separate directorates and staff employees, but is targeted at the whole complex of security forces which had no rights to relax.
Lukashenko noted that international terrorism which does not recognize geographical borders, political systems and norms of morals is the most serious from external threats.
The President reminded that organizers and executors of bomb explosion during the celebration of Independence Day of Belarus on July 3, 2008 are not found till now.
Lukashenko demanded the security forces members to constantly to raise quality of operative, information and analytical work. "To work not blindly, to not beat on tails, and precisely and competently to anticipate the negative phenomena", Lukashenko declared, according to Khartiya’97.
Lithuanian lawmakers demand probe into possible CIA prison near Vilnius
Lithuanian parliament members yesterday demanded an investigation into allegations that the United States CIA established a prison for Al-Qaida suspects in the Baltic country.
The Parliament's National Security and Defense Committee said it wants the full 141-member assembly to approve the probe next week, ABC reported.
Earlier the Lithuanian leaders have denied that their country hosted clandestine detention centers. The call for an investigation came a day after President Dalia Grybauskaite said she had "indirect suspicions" about a secret CIA prison in Lithuania. AIA reported earlier this week that President Grybauskaite marked that the allegations of a CIA prison should be taken seriously because they put Lithuania's reputation at stake.
The Parliament's National Security and Defense Committee chairman Arvydas Anusauskas said the investigation was necessary and that the committee wanted to question "certain persons" about the existence of a possible CIA prison.
An ABC News report in August said the CIA had a secret prison in Vilnius from September 2004 through November 2005, and used it to detain and interrogate al-Qaida prisoners captured around the world after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The US TV channel has promulgated numbers of planes which could transport prisoners of CIA to Lithuania. "On September 20, 2004, a plane Boeing 707 number N88ZL executed direct flight from an air base in Bagram (Afghanistan) to Vilnius". ABC News expanded that "in July, 2005, the Gulfstream IV plane ordered by CIA, number N63MU, executed a direct flight from Kabul to Vilnius. Several former employees of CIA have confirmed this flight as transfer of a prisoner to Lithuania".
According to ABC News, the prison facility of CIA in Lithuania was the last so-called "black spot” after the CIA secret prison has been closed in Poland late in 2003.
Latvian counterintelligence chief draws attention to former officials with access to state secrets
In an interview to Latvian Public Radio, the head of the Latvian Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB) Janis Kazocins stressed that only reliance on former officials' honesty and the law is what the Constitution Protection Bureau can do when the former public administration workers had Access to state secret but now they are laid off from their work. In the interview to the Latvian Public Radio Kazocins indicated that the crisis in a number of public institutions had caused lay-offs of employees with access to state secrets. „The secret information is still of interest to foreign spies, so both the dismissal of officials as well as reduced wages is a risk factor," the SAB head pointed out.
In the interview Kazocins did not hide that today the Russian side pays major interest and contributes in the field of intelligence, but it is not the only country which pays much attention to Latvia. "I will not say even that the Russian Federation is the only country which has been paying interest on us. But there is no wonder about it, as the Russian Federation is our neighbour, we are more surprised about its attitude," stressed the SAB head.
At the same time, Kazocins was surprised about the military exercises which were held by Russia and Belarus. "I have my own view on their military targets, though I will express them at the National Security Council," noted Kazocins.
Cells of Hizb ut-Tahrir terrorist organization neutralized in
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Russia’s Bashkortostan
In the cities of Ufa and Durtuli in Russia’s Bashkortostan by joint actions of the Federal Security Service directorate, the Centre on Counteraction to Extremism of the Ministry of Interior of Bashkortostan and the Investigatory Directorate activity of cells of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir have been stopped, news agency Interfax reports.
The organziation is forbidden in Russia by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, dated February 14, 2003.
"It is established that members of the neutralized cells of Hizb ut-Tahrir were conducting propaganda activities among the population, recruited inhabitants of the republic to participation in illegal activity of the specified organization, were creating secret cells", the press service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Bashkortostan directorate reported today.
"At secret assemblies of members of this terrorist organization the questions of appeal to population on change of political system and the state system of the Russian Federation were discussed with the purpose of inclusion of separate regions of the country in the so-called World Islamic Khalifat as by means of propaganda, and by violent methods, the armed Jihad, against those who would resist to construction of Khalif’s dictatorship”, the press release of the press service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Bashkortostan directorate says. Interfax adds that for material support of the cells the leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir were monthly collecting the "member" payments.
On October 22, during searches at residences of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa and Durtuli, a significant amount of propaganda materials, magazines, brochures, leaflets, videofilms, including recognized by decisions of court extremist materials, have been withdrawn. On the basis of the received materials, on the fact of organization in the city of Durtuli of activity of a Hizb ut-Tahrir cell, the Bashkiria branch of Investigatory Directorate of the Russian Federation brought a criminal case on organization of activity of an extremist organization.
As it was reported earlier, for the first time the activity of Hizb ut-Tahrir representatives in territory of Bashkortostan was fixed in 2001.
In January-February, 2008, on the basis of the FSB materials, the republican Office of Public Prosecutor brought cautions on inadmissibility of violation of the legislation and on counteraction of extremist activity concerning 10 activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir cells in the cities of Ufa, Salavat, Davlekanovo, Meleuz and Sibay, according to Interfax.
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