Operation Carthage: anti-corruption authorities detain deputy head of National Police department
Anti-corruption authorities have detained Volodymyr Tsenov, First Deputy Head of the National Police's Strategic Investigations Department, following the publication of new material in the Carthage case.
Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources in law enforcement agencies
Details: Ukrainska Pravda was told that Price, the codename heard in the recordings, is Volodymyr Tsenov, First Deputy Head of the National Police's Strategic Investigations Department. According to sources, Tsenov was detained on 4 November.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) previously said that the recordings featured Price, one of the heads of the National Police's Strategic Investigations Department.
According to investigators, he was responsible for ensuring police protection for fraudulent call centres.
Background:
- On the morning of 4 November, NABU conducted searches targeting Anton Kravchuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine's Main Department of Internal Security.
- NABU reported earlier that in the course of court-mandated searches, one of the senior SSU officials under investigation threatened to use firearms and denied detectives access to the search location. UP sources reported that the official in question was General Serhii Duka, First Deputy Head of the SSU's Department for the Protection of National Statehood.
- Duka was later detained by NABU officers.
- Members of the criminal organisation exposed as part of Operation Carthage had planned to carry out a violent attack on investigative journalist Denys Bihus because of a Bihus.Info investigation into U420, a retail chain which sold narcotics.
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