The redistribution of smuggling between Baloga and Medvedchuk may be behind the battles in Transcarpathia - media
Sunday's clashes in Mukachevo with the participation of the Right Sector may be a battle for the redistribution of the smuggling market in Transcarpathia between Baloga and Medvedchuk, writes New Newspaper.
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The smuggling business in the region has a long tradition and brings its holders multimillion-dollar income in euros. Cigarettes, round timber, and alcohol are distilled in the EU. There was also repeated talk about established drug trafficking and the transportation of illegal migrants. The volume of smuggling can be judged by, say, a tunnel one meter in diameter and 2012 meters long discovered by the Slovak police in 700. It was laid at a depth of 6 meters under the Ukrainian-Slovak border. Through this tunnel, which was supervised by local officials from the SBU, an electric trolley with a trailer of 16 cars regularly delivered contraband from a private house in Uzhgorod to a small base in Slovakia. Only when the tunnel was discovered, 13 thousand cartons of cigarettes were seized.
The redistribution of this market is obviously being carried out by former business partners, and now sworn enemies - Lanyo and Baloga. At the same time, Balogh is credited with financing the local PS, which was essentially turned into a pocket army.
We are talking about the ex-governor of Transcarpathia and the ex-head of the secretariat of President Yushchenko Viktor Balogh and Verkhovna Rada deputy Mikhail Lanyo, better known in Mukachevo as Blyuk. Behind this deputy’s back is membership in the Party of Regions faction in the parliament of the previous convocation, a sentence for rape, and suspicion of murder of a competitor. It is difficult to find a figure more suitable to the description of the leader of the most powerful Mukachevo organized crime group today, the publication writes. Also, numerous sources directly connect Lanyo with the former head of President Kuchma’s administration, Viktor Baloga’s longtime opponent, Viktor Medvedchuk.
In the near future, Transcarpathia should be ready for a total cleansing, the newspaper writes. And through the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And through the SBU, the prosecutor's office and border guards. And at the level of regional officials. The entire staff of local customs has already been replaced.
The political cleansing of Transcarpathia is important for Kyiv: in this region, bordering Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Romania, separatist sentiments are quite strong. And news about threats to proclaim the Transcarpathian People's Republic in connection with the name of Viktor Medvedchuk does not appear so rarely.
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