by Yalensis at Awful Avalanche
Dear Readers:
The plot thickens, as we delve deeper into that unique Circle of Hell known as the Ukraine. Today I have this piece from KP, by reporter Alexander Grishin. Who has done a wonderful job summarizing and trying to make sense of the Byzantine world of Spies and Traitors who infest the Kiev regime. Readers may consider this a continuation of my previous (but one) post, where we met that handsome man, Mr. Maliuk. But this story is not about him, it’s about several other colorful figures who populate this unique landscape.
Zelensky’s loud proclamations about spies and traitors within the SBU, have a goodly dose of factual basis. In truth, even before Bakanov’s removal, quite a lot of spies were caught red-handed.
Take, for example (please!), Bakanov’s “right-hand man”, a hairy slob named General Andrei Naumov. Ex-General Naumov, to be precise, since Zelensky removed that guy’s military title already back on March 31. Please recall that Bakanov is/was Zelensky’s childhood friend and fellow comedian, and was placed in charge of the SBU. For play dates he was awarded two main underlings, Naumov and Maliuk. Each one to keep his eye on the other, as per Byzantine standards.
Then a funny thing happened on the way to the war: On the very night before the Russian invasion (night of Feb 23-24) Bakanov and Naumov suddenly took a powder. Together. No, I don’t mean cocaine, I am using that American idiom “take a powder”, which means “get out of Dodge.” It’s almost as if they knew something was going down. So they fled from Kiev to Germany (together, along with a few others from their coterie) just the night before the Russians “Special Operated” into the Ukraine. Bakanov eventually returned to his post in Kiev, but Naumov never came back. One must add that Naumov had previously removed his family from the Ukraine, several weeks earlier.
The reporter Grishin asks the logical question: Could Naumov have known about Moscow’s plans? If he was a valued Russian spy, then possibly so. Given his various appointments in the government, and particularly his post in the SBU’s “Internal Investigations” Division, this is the part of the SBU that monitors the rest of the SBU, so they are particularly feared. People in the know referred to Naumov as “Bakanov’s wallet”, and Bakanov as “Zelensky’s wallet”. (In American jargon they would be called “bagmen”.) Indeed, Bakanov was the signatory under whose name Zelensky’s offshores are registered. The offshores (mainly in Cyprus?) are the places where this gang stashes their hard-earned cash. It’s clearly a pyramid scheme, of sorts, and the Big Guy always gets his cut.
Like we said,…
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