MADRID, 10 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Russian authorities have assured this Friday that they have arrested a high-ranking lieutenant of the Ukrainian Army who operated in the Zaporizhia region and who would belong to the Security Service of Ukraine, according to the Russian agency TASS.
“Essentially, a leader of an organized criminal group has been detained,” the spokesman for the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporizhia region of Russia, Vladimir Rogov, who has detailed the name of the detainee, Artur Gorobets, has detailed. Nicknamed ‘Tucha’.
According to Rogov, Gorobets would have been head of the organized crime department of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, as well as head of the regional department in Zaporizhia of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
“There has been a kind of union between the law enforcement and the criminal world. Naturally, they were doing certain favors for each other (…) The criminal structures often did some ‘dirty work’ for the SBU,” Rogov said. , which has accused Ukraine of aiding the development of criminal gangs in the country.
On the other hand, the spokesman for the Russian troops in Zaporizhia has detailed that, for eight years, each Ukrainian populated area would have had “its own criminal boss”. “A hierarchy of the criminal underworld was created and integrated into the SBU and the Ministry of the Interior,” he has concluded.
