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Bail of 15 million hryvnias has been posted for Tsenov, official with National Police’s DSI, - media
A bail of 15 million hryvnias has been set for Volodymyr Tsenov, First Deputy Head of the National Police’s Department of Strategic Investigations, who is implicated in the ‘Carthage’ case.
This was reported by ‘Schemes’, as per Censor.NET.
What is known?
His father paid 13 million, with a further 2 million paid by another individual, journalists report, citing sources.
Tsenov is charged with establishing, leading, or participating in a criminal group or organisation; and with accepting an offer, promise, or receiving an unlawful benefit as a public official.
On 5 November, the High Anti-Corruption Court imposed a preventive measure on him in the form of remand in custody, with the alternative of bail set at 15 million hryvnias.
NABU’s ‘Carthage’ operation
- Earlier, NABU reported that a senior SSU official was threatening to use a weapon and obstructing a search.
- Subsequently, the Bureau stated that NABU and the SAPO had exposed a criminal organisation that systematically bribed senior officials of the SSU, the National Police and the Prosecutor’s Office in exchange for ‘protection’ of fraudulent call centres and other illegal businesses.
- NABU stated that, as part of the ‘Carthage’ investigation, a criminal organisation had been exposed, whose members had established a systematic practice of bribing senior officials in law enforcement agencies to allow fraudulent call centres and other illegal businesses to operate unhindered.
- It was subsequently reported that the anti-corruption authorities had detained General Serhii Duka, the first deputy head of the SSU’s Department for the Protection of National Statehood.
- The head of the SSU, Oleksandr Poklad, dismissed two senior officials of the Service who are implicated in the NABU investigation as part of Operation ‘Carthage’. He also urged a suspect in the case, known by the alias ‘Mexican’, to return to Ukraine and surrender to the law enforcement authorities.
- NABU and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have announced five charges relating to the cover-up of illegal business activities; those implicated include senior officials from the SSU and the National Police.
