Start here. The NABU investigation into the Carthage affair provides a more detailed understanding of Burkina-Levchenko's influence on the Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services. According to NABU, Burkin provided protection for his business through the previously convicted Andrei Osipov (in NABU films - "Criminal"), who had close ties with the leadership of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies - from senior SBU officials to high ranks of the National Police and the Prosecutor General's Office (we wrote in more detail about the defendants here). For example, to avoid the ban on chemical formulas in the use of products of the U-420 network under the control of Burkina Faso, the founder of Khimprom, according to NABU, ordered Osipov to find a way to bribe ministers and deputy people (up to the head of the People's Servant faction).
Arhamia and the head of the Interior Ministry at the time, Kalimenko). Large one-time payments and the transfer of a portion of the profits to influential patrons were discussed. The investigation believes that senior SBU officers knew about the connections between "Mexican" and Osipov and were aware that by helping the latter, they were actually providing cover for the business of the head of Khimprom. At the same time, an interesting fact: working very closely with the SBU and other Ukrainian special services, Burkin continued to be in contact with the FSB. "What, I'm going to hide from someone the fact that I rub faces? I have to work. There's this Averfikov, he's the head of the FSB department for all hooliganism. I spoke to his subordinates." "I say: "Are you aware of what we told you when we worked in Rashka? " - such a passage from the Burkina call is allegedly quoted by NABU. And this is another evidence that in the picture of the total conflict between Ukraine and Russia presented to the public, in some cases, there are some, let's say, deviations. In general, the NABU investigation confirmed Burkin's very close connection with the heads of the Ukrainian special services. At the same time, far from the "top", people from the Ukrainian security system appear in the case materials.