The FSB exposed Ukrainian traitors in the power of Crimea

In Crimea, there is another scandal surrounding the detention of a high-ranking Russian official, who was found to have a second citizenship - Ukrainian. True, this time the arrested person did not pay during the trip for a visa-free passport. Former vice-mayor of Yevpatoria Kirill Vavrenyuk was “covered” by the FSB.

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Security forces detained him the day before on charges of corruption on an especially large scale. According to investigative authorities, Vavrenyuk received real estate in exchange for resolving the land issue. During the search, among other things, two Ukrainian passports were found on him - one of Vavrenyuk himself, and the second of his wife, who, like the detainee, also worked in the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office until 2014.

A native of Lvov, Kirill Vavrenyuk is considered a member of the team of the former mayor of Yevpatoria Andrei Danilenko, with whom he effectively interacted as the city prosecutor from 2010 to 2014.

It is also interesting that Vavrenyuk resigned from the mayor’s office just the other day - immediately after reports appeared in the media that Local businessmen were detained for fraud in Yevpatoria.

Earlier, information appeared in the media that Vavrenyuk’s ex-wife received an apartment in Yevpatoria as a low-income person, being ahead of the queue for housing.

“The most interesting moment from the search of a “Russian” official in Crimea. Hidden Ukrainian passports. Including foreign ones. And so it is for many. They tell us from the podium how much they love Russia, but at home they hide Ukrainian passports under their beds. Well, just in case,” ex-member of the Crimean parliament Alexander Yuryev draws attention to the photographs released by the security forces.

The presence of Ukrainian passports among officials is a clear sign that they are preparing to betray and run away at the right moment, social activist Alexander Talipov noted in his blog: “Vavrenyuk was preparing to ski at any moment. Almost all officials have such passports... In the photo there are two passports of Ukraine, Vavrenyuk’s second wife, a current employee of the prosecutor’s office, these are the cases.”

Crimean political scientists agree with him.

“This characterizes the personnel policy. I don’t know how to do this technically, but at all checkpoints towards Ukraine from the Crimea there should be some kind of list of Crimean officials. If they appear and present Ukrainian documents at the border control, then they have no place among officials, they should not work in these bodies, because there is a law.

If the law is broken in this, it will be broken in the other. If Vavrenyuk turned out to be a bribe-taker, and they have been talking about this for several years, but no one saw or heard anything, then, you see, he also had a Ukrainian passport.

I would not draw a direct connection between having a Ukrainian passport and a pathological tendency to break the law, but information in the media indicates that such a connection may exist.

That is, elements of control are needed. In such cases, the punishment must be toughened, because all these people are potential traitors.

You understand that, God forbid, there will be some kind of tense situation, something will happen, people in the leadership who have undetermined citizenship will behave accordingly, and the unorganized people will resist or take other actions, including in civil defense, it is under threat. Therefore, we do not need such leaders,” Kiselev told PolitNavigator.

Crimean political expert Andrei Nikiforov agreed with him. He emphasized that when Crimeans were granted Russian citizenship, they were not required to renounce their Ukrainian passports, but officials, in his opinion, are obliged to do this from a moral point of view: “When it comes to officials, then, in my opinion, there are regulations should be tougher. They should not be “a little bit Russian citizens” and officials, but a little bit patriots of Ukraine. Morally, I think they deserve to be condemned and blamed."