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General Mladic not within reach of Serbia: involvement of Russian secret services suspected
Former Hungarian military intelligence officer who revealed spy-ring within NATO has died
Almost 1,000 units of equipment for eavesdropping and video surveillance withdrawn by Ukraine’s Security Service
Investigation of criminal case of Altyn company’s forwarding agent completed in Russia
General Patrushev changes his seat for Russian Volleyball Federation’s Supervisory Council
General Mladic not within reach of Serbia: involvement of Russian secret services suspected
The Belgrade newspaper Press yesterday published an article, according to which the US CIA has made a secret report intended for the Netherlands government, in which it alleges that General Ratko Mladic is not in Serbia. The paper refers to "perfectly informed diplomatic sources". The Netherlands is the only of the European Union member-countries which has stipulated that capture and delivery to the Hague of the fugitive General is a condition for renewal of process of accession of Serbia to the EU.
According to the Press, it is underlined in the CIA report that "Ratko Mladic is not
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within reach of the Serbian secret services", which lastyears have been doing everything to find the fugitive, however, all specifies that the General is under protection of one of foreign intelligence services which does not allow to arrest it, and even probably keeps him in a secret shelter outside Serbia.
The interlocutor of the newspaper from the western diplomatic circles has told that no particular intelligence agency is named in the CIA report, but it is known for a long time among experts that Americans suspect Russia of rendering assistance and protection to General Mladic.
In the CIA report it is ostensibly emphasized that Serbia after change of government in 2008 has done "absolutely everything" to find and seize Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, however, they "are not within reach of bodies of the Serbian government".
Today the Belgrade daily Blic has published an article on the new report to the UN Security Council on cooperation between Serbia and the Hague Tribunal, written by the Chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Serge Brammertz. He marks that for the first time he is ‘satisfied with the present degree of cooperation by Serbia with the Tribunal’ and that he expects that the war crimes suspects Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic shall be extradited to the ICTY, according to Blic.
For the first time also, Brammertz has not mentioned a single criticism including the claim that the war crimes suspects are within reach of Serbian authorities. On the contrary, Brammertz praises efforts by Serbian authorities and the Action team searching for the suspects, ‘Blic’ points out. Serge Brammertz, the Chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal is to present his report to the United Nations Security Council on December 3, the paper adds.
Former Hungarian military intelligence officer who revealed spy-ring within NATO has died
Former Hungarian military intelligence officer Istvan Belovai has died at the age of 71, The Daily Telegraph reports. He revealed to the United States government the existence of an extensive spy-ring working within NATO.
In 1975, Major Belovai was asked to translate a despatch which was containing details of the standard operating procedures of the US 7th Army. The despatch came from Clyde Lee Conrad, an administrator at secret NATO archives in Germany. From 1974 until his arrest in 1988, Conrad sold top secret information to Communist Hungary and recruited several other US Army personnel to help him.
Among the papers pouring in from the Conrad spy ring Belovai was given the job of translating in 1978 there was the Cosmic Top Secret General Defence Plan with details of the position of every unit in Europe in case of a war, and how they were to defend against Warsaw Pact forces. Belovai decided to alert the United States to the security leak because he became convinced that the information could lead to a nuclear war.
In 1984, already serving as assistant military and air attaché in London, he made contact with an American agent known as Richard C in a CIA safe house. That summer Belovai was transferred back to Budapest, but he continued to communicate with the Americans under the code name Scorpion-B. In 1985, however, Lieutenant-Colonel Belovai was arrested by Hungarian counterintelligence while on his way to a CIA drop point. It is believed that he had been betrayed by the CIA counter-intelligence officer and Soviet spy Aldrich Ames.
Belovai was sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage and was held as a political prisoner. Three years later, he learned of the arrest of Conrad and four accomplices. Belovai eventually won release on parole in September 1990, six months after the first free elections in Hungary. Though, the new Hungarian authorities refused to grant him a full pardon. In 1990 he left for the United States and settled in Colorado.
Almost 1,000 units of equipment for eavesdroping and video surveillance withdrawn by Ukraine’s Security Service
Since the beginning of 2009, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has withdrawn from illegal circulation almost 1,000 units of special technical equipment for private removal of data, news agency UNIAN reports, referring to deputy head of the SBU division of maintenance of information security Nikolai Kuleshov. He said 16 persons had been called to account for illegal manufacturing, purchase and storage of special technical means for eavesdropping and video surveillance.
The SBU agents detained a group of persons which used special technical means to illegally gather information on private and business life of citizens in Belaya Tserkov of Kiev area.
Marina Ostapenko, the chief of the SBU press centre, told that malefactors have rented a few rooms on the floor where the offices of director and accounting department of one of establishments were located. There malefactors have established special equiment at a NGO which cooperates with the law enforcement bodies. The obtained information was sold to the customer for $1,000.
In one of show-business facilities of Brovarsk district of Kiev equipment of private reception of audio and video information have been withdrawn. According to Ostapenko, the operatives have found out and withdrawn 15 hidden mini video cameras and microphones which "covered" lunch halls, restroom and office of accounting department. The device for muffling signals of radio communication by mobile phones found out by security service officers allowed malefactors to listen and record conversations of visitors who were compelled to make calls from stationary phones. Thus all the information was directed to the office of the managing director and collected on two computers.
The SBU also stopped illegal activity of the resident of Donetsk area who was engaged in illegal selling of special means of private reception of information at the Mayak radio market in Donetsk. According to Ostapenko, 10 hidden mini-video cameras, the microphones camouflaged as pens with videocameras and other equipment was withdrawn.
The SBU added that a draft law had been developed and transferred to the parliament of Ukraine on toughening of responsibility for illegal use of special technical means and their distribution.
General Patrushev changes his seat for Russian Volleyball
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Federation’s Supervisory Council
Today the session of presidium of the Russian Federation of Volleyball took place in Moscow on reorganization of its administrative board according to the corresponding assignment of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, online paper NEWSru reports.
The Secretary of Security Council of the Russian Federation, the former Federal Security Service (FSB) head General Nikolai Patrushev submitted to the council his resignation from the post of the federation’s president, having explained the decision with big congestion on work in the basic post. According to the official, currently he cannot carry out management of activity of the federation properly. The resignation has been accepted, online paper notes.
AIA already reported that President Medvedev of Russia on October 23 demanded all state officials who have been on supervising posts in sports federations, in a month to vacate their offices in favour of professionals. He suggested them to head supervisory and trusteeship boards.
According to the official site of the Russian Federation of Volleyball, the first vice-president of the federation, Stanislav Shevchenko, will act as the president of federation till the next conference. At the same session it was decided to create the Supervisory Council of public organization Russia Federation of Volleyball, and General Patrushev was unanimously chosen to be its chairman.
Investigation of criminal case of Altyn company’s forwarding agent completed in Russia
Investigation of the case of the forwarding agent of Altyn company who was caught early this year in Tyumen area of Siberia with sledges filled with 50 kilograms of golden jewellery items, is completed, news agencies are reporting. It appeared that the company, contrary to assumption of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), had no office in Turkey.
The Investigatory directorate of the Russian Federal Security Service Tyumen area directorate finished investigation of the criminal case concerning the forwarding agent of jewellery network Altyn, news agency Rosbalt reported, referring to a source in the security services. According to the source, the forwarding agent has been charged with contraband.
In reply to inquiry of the Russian FSB the law enforcement bodies of Turkey reported that the ornaments withdrawn at Altyn company were not made in Turkey, and neither a secret office of Altyn, nor the firms connected with it had been revealed in Turkey. Earlier the FSB employees suspected the management of Altyn of organization in Turkey of an illegal office which was engaged in buying up of jewellery ornaments from local manufacturers for the subsequent contraband transfer to Russia.
After detention of the forwarding agent, in early October, the FSB agents carried out searches in a number of Altyn’s offices. They found out that Altyn had used illicit schemes, extracting gold in Kazakhstan, forwarding it then for processing to China and Turkey and then delivering it to Russia. Russian brands were put on the golden items to escape from the customs duties, and they went on sale, news agency expands.
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