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Three Islamists arrested by intelligence agency in Bosnia on suspicion of terrorism
National Security Bureau hits Poland’s Internal Security Agency on role in sales of shipyards
Poland’s security service burned one ton of cocaine to avoid attempts to rebound it
Russian Federal Security Service named causer of explosions of ammunition in Ulyanovsk
Arrest of deputy chief of Almaty Financial Police by Kazakhstan’s security service is legitimite
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry commented on statement by chief of Armenia’s military intelligence
Three Islamists arrested by intelligence agency in Bosnia on suspicion of terrorism
Three Bosnian Islamists were arrested in Sarajevo and in central Bosnia last week on charges
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of terrorism and illegal trade in arms and military equipment, Croatian state news agency HINA reports, referring to Bosnian prosecutors. The suspects were identified as Rijad Rustempasic, Edis Velic and Abdulah Handzic. Rustempasic was also suspected of illegal weapons trafficking, the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in a statement. The twin brother of one of the suspects, Muhamed Rustempasic, who lives in Vienna, has also been detained by Bosnian police and remains under police custody. He was arrested in September while trying to cross the Bosnian border upon visiting relatives in Sarajevo.
The arrested were reported to be the followers of the strict Saudi-interpretation of Islam, known as Wahhabism that encourages intolerance of other ethnic groups and religions, HINA notes.
The arrest follows an intense investigation including interviews with “nearly 70 different witnesses and several suspects, and collected over 1,000 pieces of evidence from Bosnia, as well as from Germany and Austria, and elsewhere," according to prosecutors.
The Bosnian media reports said that the Bosnian intelligence agency intercepted their calls while they were planning attacks on the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in central Sarajevo and on the Franciscan monastery in Fojnica, 40 km northwest of Sarajevo. The media previously reported the three were linked with terrorist groups in Austria and Germany and were planning to attack European Union peacekeepers and Catholic shrines in Bosnia. Their specific targets were planned to include soldiers of the EU countries with forces in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as a Franciscan Monastery in Fojnica, central Bosnia, the Balkan Insight expands.
All three suspects were previously detained by Bosnian authorities in March last year, but were released after three months in detention for the lack of evidence.
Poland’s security service burned one ton of cocaine to avoid attempts to rebound it
The Internal Security Agency (ABW) of Poland burned in February a ton of cocaine that belonged to special security control room, daily Dziennik reports.
After several months, a Warsaw court issued a ruling without precedent on the burning of the drug, daily Gazeta Prawna reveals. The court upheld the prosecution's request that the justification used rarely reached the article 232A of the Criminal Code. It allows the destruction of the materials being investigated, if the store is dangerous and costly. "For the purpose of the trial, only a few dozen of pounds were left. We convinced the judge of aburdity of holding the whole amount of drugs," said the indictor of Warsaw prosecutor's office.
Neither the site, nor the date of burning the drug is known. "We used a special furnace to ensure that there will be no smoke," says the ABW spokesperson Colonel Katarzyna Koniecpolska-Wroblewska. It is precisely the security services that most wanted to destroy the drug. Previously they were forced to bear great costs of safe storage of stimulants.
The ABW officers did not rule out any scenario, even an attempt to rebound the drug. The memory of the greatest raid Central Investigation Bureau is still alive. Four years ago, two corrupt policemen took from stores over 100 kg of cocaine and heroin. Daily Gazeta Prawna failed to establish the details of the operation, resulting in the seized drug, which went out of the oven. "It ended up taking over 1,130 kg of cocaine and the detention of eight people in February,” the paper’s source says. All the action started several months earlier. The DEA, US drug agency, gave information to Polish service on plans of smuggling tons of cocaine into Poland.
A ton of drug of excellent quality was attracting drug traffickers who came from all over Europe to Poland to negotiate the purchase of bulk quantities between 100 and 500 kilograms. In mid-February the ABW executives decided a series of arrests: three Colombians, a citizen of Venezuela, two Dutchmen and two Austrians were detained. It was found out that a Colombian who since ten years had Polish citizenship had been bringing the drug into Poland. The ABW suspects him of being a resident of Medelin cartel.
National Security Bureau hits Poland’s Internal Security Agency on role in sales of shipyards
It might be an infringement of the law by conducting and supervising the sales process and the Gdynia Shipyard and Szczecin New Shipyard, Poland’s National Security Bureau (Biuro Bezpieczenstwa Narodowego—BBN) report says, daily Dziennik reports. According to the BBN, the collapse of the yard sale should also be explained in terms of a possible failure to comply with the obligations before the leadership of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) of Poland.
The BBN stated that on October 13, National Security Bureau chief Alexander Szczyglo had asked the Secretary of the College for Security Services Jacek Cichocki for an assessment of the ABW activities in the sale of property of Gdynia Shipyard SA and Szczecin Shipyard Nowa Sp. Ltd.
Due to the lack of response, the head of BBN sent a repeated request to Minister Cichocki. In his explanation submitted on November 10, Cichocki omitted some important issues, the report marks. The Bureau prepared the analysis of documents sent in early October by the Central Anticorruption Bureau to the highest authorities - and from the facts revealed to the public on irregularities in the process of selling the assets of the yard it arises that there might have been an infringement of the law by conducting and supervising of the process of yards sale.
According to BBN, the nature of the violations indicates the possibility of crime. "Therefore there is a need to explain the role of the Internal Security Agency in the yard sale." The reports underlines that "there is no doubt that the processes of sales (privatization, changes in ownership) of strategic sectors of the national economy remain within the framework of the ABW charter”.
It recalls that they are identification, prevention and detection of crime of espionage, terrorism, violation of state secrets and other crimes prejudicial to the security of the state. "Any information suggesting irregularities in the sale or inaccurate information of befogging this process should meet with official activities of the Agency," BBN stresses. BBN maintains that therefore, if the CBA (Central Anticorruption Bureau) information about yard sales are not factual justification, ABW must submit a notice of exceeding its powers by the Head of CBA. Since the ABW has not reported such notice at due moment, it seems reasonable therefore to ascertain that the head of CBA was correct. "Therefore, the collapse of the yard sale should also be explained in terms of a possible failure to comply with Article. 231 of the Penal Code by the management of ABW", says the BBN report.
Russian Federal Security Service named causer of explosions of ammunition in Ulyanovsk
According to preliminary data, the head of one of shops on recycling of ammunition at Arsenal #31 in Russia’s Ulyanovsk, Yekaterina Kangina, can be the originator of the state of emergency, online paper Life.ru reports, referring to the officer on duty of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Ulyanovsk area directorate Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Ukolov. Investigators suppose that the violation of the safety precautions admitted by Kangina could become the reason of accident, causing explosions of ammunition.
Life.ru marks that the managers of the arsenal have been saving on everything possible. The number of workers in one shop was reduced from initial 120 workers to about 40, for instance. The first incident happened at enterprise on October 22 when a separate bom explosion occurred there, however, then there was no vast tragedy.
The shells now scattered by explosion from the arsenal are taken out of the city for destruction. In territory of federal state enterprise, Arsenal #31, a huge stock of torpedos, artillery shells and deep-sea mines is stored. The Government of the Russian Federation and Ministry of Defence have been watching the situation in Ulyanovsk, Life.ru notes. The arsenal of the Navy is located in Ulyanovsk since 1941. The object always was considered very dangerous, a question on carrying it out of city boundaries has been risen repeatedly. However, no explosions occurred there for all history of the arsenal, online paper notes.
Arrest of deputy chief of Almaty Financial Police by Kazakhstan’s security service is legitimite
Detention and the arrest of the deputy chief of department on struggle against economic and corruption crimes of Almaty, Lieutenant-Colonel Aidyn Zhanteleyev has been legitimite, news agency KazTAG reports, referring to the Almaty directorate of National Security Committee of Kazakhstan.
«The operative and investigatory actions concerning the suspect [Aidyn Zhanteleye] have been carried out strictly according to the law under supervision of bodies of the Office of Public Prosecutor and on court’s sanction. Investigators have incontestable probative base on participation of Zhanteleyev in use, purchase and storage of narcotics, according to corresponding operative evidence, including video and audio recordings with admission of teh facts by witnesses», the press release of the security service says.
The KNB directorate notes Zhanteleyev was in a condition of narcotic intoxication at the moment of detention and that the Almaty city narcological centre repeated his examination.
The officers of the Almaty directorate of National Security Committee of Kazakhstan detained Aidyn Zhanteleyev at one of the city’s underground car parkings. According to the KNB, hashish and marijuana size have been found in a pocket of his trousers and his jacket during personal examination.
Meanwhile the official spokesman of the Agency on struggle against economic and corruption crimes (Financial Police) of Kazakhstan, Murat Zhumanbay, told the press that his department had been conducting own internal investigation of validity and legality of actions of the KNB officers, “in view of raising the doubts circumstances of his detention”. According Zhumanbay, Zhanteleyev has served in the system of law enforcement bodies and Financial Police for 13 years and during the period of service has not been convicted of use of any narcotics, KazTag adds.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry commented on statement by
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chief of Armenia’s military intelligence
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry spokesman Eldar Sabiroglu said commenting on a statement by the chief of Armenia’s military intelligence, Major-General Arskah Karapetyan, that the head of Armenia’s military intelligence was making false statements meant only for public, online paper Day.Az reports.
Armenian media recently reported that Major-General Karapetyan urged not to frighten Armenia with larger military budgets as spirit, will, strength and skill, which is inherent in the Armenian army, wins in the battlefield.
"Situation in the Armenia army is deplorable. Due to critical economic situation in the country, the military budget has been cut. The Armenian army is not provided with all necessary items. They have no money to maintain soldiers. They are not even fed in time. What kind of spirit and combat effectiveness can exist there under such circumstances?” Day.Az cites Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry spokesman. "So, all these false statements are meant only for public both in the country and abroad. They will never criticize themselves and that's why they make such a statement,” Sabiroglu concluded.
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