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Former participant of Dokka Umarov group arrested in Moscow with gun and city map
Russian Federal Security Service, Investigatory Committee detained Defence Ministry official for taking bribes
Herman Simm was checked not once: Estonian KaPo Commissioner
Only Security Police can combat corruption: Estonian parliament’s official
City mayor of Kohtla-Jarve detained by Estonian security service agents
SBU did not allow two members of Russian fund to enter Ukraine
Poland’s Internal Security Agency put restrictions to access of information regarding MP’s death
Lech Walesa sues Poland's President over Communist collaboration accusations
Officers of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee detained drug smugglers ar selling of large lot of hashish
Former participant of Dokka Umarov group arrested in Moscow with gun and city map
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The agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained the 26 y.o. Ingush Ruslan Ozniyev in a hostel of the Russian Peoples Friendship University (RUDN) and withdraw from him trotyl, Makarov’s pistol, some ammunition and a map of Moscow. Certain marks have been made on the map which the FSB has counted as sites of planned acts of terrorism, online paper NEWSru reports.
According to Anna Usachyova, the head of Moscow City Court’s press service, Lefortovo regional court satisfied the request of investigators for an arrest of the suspect. Meanwhile Ozniyev’s friends allege that he was specially enticed from abroad to be substituted. As if in such a way the FSB agents help their curators to improve the reporting on struggle against terrorism, daily Kommersant writes.
According to the paper, Ozniyev’s lifespan has been complicated enough. It is known that in 2004 Ruslan Ozniyev, a native from a rather poor Ingush family disappeared from the city of Gorzny under unclear circumstances. The parents suspected that secret services were involved in his disappearance and addressed to the Office of Public Prosecutor and the Ministry of Interior, but they could not find him.
However in May, 2007, Ruslan Ozniyev unexpectedly appeared in Moscow and on the Victory Day’s eve he was detained together with several young Chechens allegedly for preparation of act of terrorism. According to the FSB Investigatory directorate, the detained perons intended to blow up in Moscow the President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. For this purpose they have filled a vehicle with several kilograms of explosive. Ozniyev was not charged then, (only one of arrested persons was sentenced for alleged preparation of act of terrorism).
Ozniyev’s wife Mata who lives in France told the newspaper that after that incident Ruslan got over to her to Paris. She said that on November 17 her husband received a phone call and was told that he should to urgently fly to Moscow.
Meanwhile the FSB claim that Ozniyev was leaving France to Russia earlier, too. It says in 2007 he got to Moscow through Poland and then went to Grozny where he joined the group of field commander Dokka Umarov and was ostensibly responsible for armament. In the group he used the name of Abdul Malik, according to the FSB.
It specify that Ozniyev’s business trip was short and he returned to France where he was stsying till November. Then, according to the FSB investigators, one of Umarov’s subordinates, known as Khamzat, established contact with him and ordered Ozniyev to urgently arrive to Moscow. In Moscow Ozniyev rented a room in the university hostel. He reportedly met a certain Chechen there who transferred to him the weapon, explosive, detonators, a wig and glasses. According to the FSB, Ozniyev had to hide all this in a park near the hostel and wait for new instructions from insurgents. Currently Ozniyev is suspected of participation in "an illegal armed formation" and "illegal storage of weapons and ammunition".
The FSB believe that thanks to the special operation action a large act of terrorism has been prevented in Moscow, NEWSru marks.
Only Security Police can combat corruption: Estonian parliament’s official
The chairman of Legal commission of the Estonian parliament Ken-Martti Vaher is convinced that only the Security Police (KaPo) is able to liquidate large corruption schemes in the country, ERR Uudised reports.
Speaking on air of Estonian Public Television, the parliament member noted that the state police could solve simple cases of corruption. However in case of more serious affairs, when more than one person is involved in corruption schemes, and lawyers are used as advisers of the criminals, it is only the Security Police that can succeed in investigaiton, according to Ken-Martti Vaher. The parliament member considers that the KaPo has all necessary technical resources, and also qualified employees for this purpose, ERR Uudised adds.
Meanwhile the Ministry of Justice believes that the Security Police should not investigate cases of corruption. Vaher has different opinion, according to ERR Uudised. He has even said that the ruling coalition contract contains an item according to which the KaPo have been supervising activity of major local municipalities. According to Vaher, investigation of corruption means also its prevention. So, for instance, the fear of the KaPo interest about a certain person may affect decision-making on refusal of corruption.
Estonian security service agents detained city mayor of Kohtla-Jarve
The employees of the Security Police (KaPo) of Estonia detained the city mayor of Kohtla-Jarve, Yevgeny Solovev, suespected of bribery, online paper Delfi reports. Yevgeny Solovev is a member of the opposiiton Centrist party of Estonia.
According to investigators, the official created concessionary terms for some businessmen at carrying out of tenders. The police considers that the company-winners carried out building and repair work free of charge in the city mayor’s interests.
The investigation begun in spring of 2009. According to news agency Interfax, businessman Nikolai Osipenko who used to win „almost all tenders on state deliveries in Kohtla-Jarve" has got under suspicion in bribery.
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Herman Simm was checked not once: Estonian KaPo Commissioner
The Commissioner of Estonia’s Security Police (KaPo) Andres Kahar says the contacts and the past of the former Estonian Defence Ministry high-ranking official Herman Simm, who was recognized guilty of high treason, have been checked up several times and nothing has not been revealed that would allow to suspect him of collaboration with the Russian intelligence. Kahar also noted talking to Estonian TV program Ringvaade that people wrongly believe that similar checks were very effective. He said that in no country they have not helped to catch someone, ERR Uudised reports.
According to the commissioner, as far it is not known whether there still are traitors similar to Simm in Estonia, but the Security Police should always assume that similar criminals exist and has to constantly make efforts to reveal and catch them, though in today's open world crime is more difficult to detect, ERR Uudised adds.
Lech Walesa sues Poland's President over Communist collaboration accusations
The district court of Warsaw postponed till December 18 the process in case of accusations of Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski by Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder and the former President of Poland, news agencies are reporting today. Walesa is suing President Kaczynski, who alleged Walesa was a secret informer of the Polish Communist secret police.
Walesa, a Nobel Prize laureate, is demanding that Lech Kaczynski apologize and pay 100,000 zloty ($37,000) damages, Digital Journal expands.
In a 2008 TV interview Kaczynski said that Walesa was an agent codenamed Bolek, collaborating with the Communist internal intelligence agency and secret police, Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (SB).
In 2005, Walesa received status of victim from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). He then announced that he would sue anyone who accuses him of being an agent, online magazine notes.
According to Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, Kaczynski's lawyer demanded rejection of the application, because in his view only the State Tribunal is qualified to settle the cases for the nation's president. Another Polish paper, Polska, reports that the court listened to the 2008 TV interview wanting to determine whether Kaczynski's statement was a private opinion or a statement of the President.
Poland’s Internal Security Agency put restrictions to access of information regarding MP’s death
The former Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) spokeswoman Magdalena Stanczyk testified before the parliamentary committee of inquiry investigating the circumstances of the death of former Social Democrat politician and parliament member Barbara Blida that after her death the amount of information transmitted by ABW for the media was definitely decreased, the Warsaw-based daily Rzeczpospolita reports.
Asked by the parliament member Mark Wojcik on practice of filming arrests, Stanczyk replied that she did not recall release of any videos for the media after the death of Blida. "After April 25[2007, the day of Blida’s death] it did not come to anyone’s mind to provide such video recording, to do something and then also the amount of information provided to the media was restricted," news agency PAP cites Stanczyk.
The witness added that in the day of Blida’s death they received several hundred of phone calls from journalists. She explained that on that day she contacted only with the then head of ABW Bogdan Swieczkowski on the media coverage. The former spokeswoman also testified that after the death of Barbara Blida a concept was developed to film the detainees. Stanczyk said that in April 2006 a session with the the present head of the agency Witold Marchuk was taking place. "At the briefing the chief of staff passed the new guidelines, and it was recommended to report to the head office on the activity and provide it with the corresponding materials," stated the witness.
In the course of discussion it was agreed that the detention, concerning the case, should be filmed, according to Stanczyk. The committee chairman Ryszard Kalisz inquired whether the legal basis of such filming was considered and appropriate analysis carried out. Stanczyk replied that she was not aware of any legal analysis on this issue, according to news agency PAP.
SBU did not allow two members of Russian fund to enter Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has forbidden entrance to the country for two Russian scientists on the basis of the law, On Legal Status of Foreigners and Persons without Citizenship, Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reports, referring to the press centre of the Ukrainian Security Service which did not explain the incident at Borispol airport of Kiev.
The news agency cites the press secretary of Border Guard Service, Sergei Astakhov, who told that the Border Guard Service did not allow two Russian scientists to enter the country “on the behalf of law enforcement bodies”. He expanded that the entrance to Ukraine is forbidden for these two citizens of the Russian Federation for the period of one year.
The two Russian scientists were Yelena Miskova, director of humanitarian communications fund Priznaniye, and Vladimir Frolov, the chairman of board of the same fund. Miskova was expected to conduct a conference devoted to actual topics of youth policy in Ukraine and Russia in Kiev together with the Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Dzhangirov. Recently in one of articles of the weekly Zerkalo Nedeli, it was noted that that the heads of fund Priznaniye would not be allowed to enter Ukraine, marks ITAR-TASS.
Officers of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee detained drug smugglers ar selling of large lot of hashish
The officers of the Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee detained policemen of the interdistrict department on struggle against illegal drug business Delta-Dolina of Zhambyl oblast, for selling of especially large lot of hashish, Central-Asia News reports, referring to the National Security Committee’s press service.
"On November 19, by selling of more than 23 kg of hashish two employees of the interdistrict department on struggle against illegal drug business Delta-Dolina of the Department of Interior of Zhambyl oblast have been detained. A criminal case has been brought on the given fact, and investigatory and operative actions are being carried out," the press-release of the National Security Committee’s press service says today.
According to the security service, the detention became possible after a regional group of drug smugglers under protection of employees of the Delta-Dolina department’s employees was revealed in the territory of Zhambyl area as a result of operative development.
The security service also reports that together with the Federal Drugs Control Service of the Russian Federation, an international operation Transit, directed on stoppage of activity of international structure of drug smugglers was carried out. The illegal delivery of Afghani drugs was organized from Tajikistan through Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan.
"As a result of special actions, on November 18 in Pavlodar at reception of more than 32 kg of raw opium two citizens of Kazakhstan were detained", the press release of the Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee marks.
Russian Federal Security Service, Investigatory Committee detained Defence Ministry official for taking bribes
Colonel Pavel Smirnov demanded 1 million 160,000 roubles from businessmen for his services, online paper Life.ru reports. The employees of Moscow military district’s Military Investigatory Directorate of the Investigatory Committee of General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation and agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia detained in his office at reception of the bribe the chief of military representation office of Russian Defence Ministry with the Federal state unitary enterprise, Research and Production Association named after S.A.Lavochkin, Colonel Pavel Smirnov.
The high-ranking official represented interests of the customer at the enterprise belonging to the Russian Federal Space Agency. Colonel Smirnov requested a rather big sum for the coordination of works executed by the commercial organization under the state contract in the field of space activity, Life.ru expands.
A criminal case on reception by an official of a bribe in especially large amount has been brought on the given fact by the Moscow military district Military investigatory directorate.
According to Life News, the security services revealed the enterprising officer according to operative information on "special conditions" of carrying out of tender on delivery of the equipment declared by the Federal Space Agency.
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