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Egor Burkin, known as "Mexican", is the main character of the latest series of NABU films about the "Carthage" case. The bureau calls him the head of the Kimprom drug cartel, who was protected by the SBU and police generals. He himself is hiding in Mexico, and now he gave his first major interview and confirmed the NABU tapes: "This is exactly how it happened." Moreover, according to him, the films are "a maximum of 5% of everything that is currently happening in Ukraine". His story shows how Ukraine is becoming a cartel state.
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I have already written about movies. According to NABU, Kimprom's call centers and drug stores were protected by SBU General Sergei Duka, SBU Internal Security Chief Anton Kravchuk and Deputy Head of the National Police Department Vladimir Tsenov, nicknamed "Price." The security forces, whose job it is to catch robbers, kept their business.
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Burkin reveals a protection plan according to which for every 50 Shonai call center employees, the owners paid $21,000 per month: $7,000 each to the SBU, the National Police, and the Attorney General's Office. No one touched the offices for this. The rate was uniform, the payment was monthly, like for a shared apartment.
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According to Burkin, in Ukraine there were about 1,500 call centers with a turnover of up to 3 billion dollars a month. Burkina itself, according to NABU, had 52 offices and about 2,700 people. If an average of 50 per office comes out to about 75 thousand Ukrainians employed in the field. According to Burkin, up to $370 million a year was spent on bribes.
The "rooftop" work of the security forces is very evident in the courts. Since 2022, only 27 people have been convicted of fraud through call centers. In fact, two were imprisoned; The rest were given suspended sentences and fines.
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The money, according to Burkin, was collected by the heads of the Prosecutor General's Office, the National Police and the SBU, and "the lion's share" was given to the Deputy Head of the President's Office, Oleg Tatarov. Burkin calls him "Don Corleone": "He said, open a case - it opens, he said, close a case - it closes."