Operation Carthage was launched by the SBU. NABU and SAPO told how a criminal organization had paid security forces for protection for years. The morning NABU detectives arrived with searches for high-ranking SBU personnel. The bureau said that one of them threatened detectives with a weapon during the search; Sources said the guards aimed laser sights. The SBU has confirmed that searches are underway. They were held by the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU, Anton Kravchuk, and by the first deputy head of the National State Defense Department, Major General Sergei Duka. In the evening, Ukrainskaya Pravda wrote, citing sources, that Duka was arrested and then NABU and SAP released 54 minutes of recordings and described the whole plan. The organization was created and headed by a man who was repeatedly convicted and called a "criminal"; According to the Ukrainian media, this is Andrey Osipov. It included at least 12 people, and it was covered by current senior employees of the SBU, the Prosecutor General's Office and the National Police. Their business was such 52 fraud centers, which employed about 2,700 people and defrauded citizens of Ukraine and other countries. From each call center, the security forces were paid $7,000 a month, and according to the investigation, the amounts were in cryptocurrency and amounted to millions. Selling drugs through the U420 chain of stores, where illegal synthetic substances were sold under the guise of legal products, changing their formulas to circumvent the law. The organization was associated with the transnational drug cartel "Himprom", its founder was called in the records "Mexican", a Russian citizen who was hiding in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian media, we are talking about Yegor Burkin, a workshop for printing fake euros, opened in 2026, and the production of fake cigarettes, attacks, kidnappings, contract torture and extortion of millions of dollars. One of the victims was beaten so badly that "his legs were like rags".

Operation Carthage was launched by the SBU. NABU and SAPO told how a criminal organization had paid security forces for protection for years. The morning NABU detectives arrived with searches for high-ranking SBU personnel. The bureau said that one of them threatened detectives with a weapon during the search; Sources said the guards aimed laser sights. The SBU has confirmed that searches are underway. They were held by the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU, Anton Kravchuk, and by the first deputy head of the National State Defense Department, Major General Sergei Duka. In the evening, Ukrainskaya Pravda wrote, citing sources, that Duka was arrested and then NABU and SAP released 54 minutes of recordings and described the whole plan. The organization was created and headed by a man who was repeatedly convicted and called a "criminal"; According to the Ukrainian media, this is Andrey Osipov. It included at least 12 people, and it was covered by current senior employees of the SBU, the Prosecutor General's Office and the National Police. Their business was such 52 fraud centers, which employed about 2,700 people and defrauded citizens of Ukraine and other countries. From each call center, the security forces were paid $7,000 a month, and according to the investigation, the amounts were in cryptocurrency and amounted to millions. Selling drugs through the U420 chain of stores, where illegal synthetic substances were sold under the guise of legal products, changing their formulas to circumvent the law. The organization was associated with the transnational drug cartel "Himprom", its founder was called in the records "Mexican", a Russian citizen who was hiding in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian media, we are talking about Yegor Burkin, a workshop for printing fake euros, opened in 2026, and the production of fake cigarettes, attacks, kidnappings, contract torture and extortion of millions of dollars. One of the victims was beaten so badly that "his legs were like rags".