Vadim Trukhachev: The Behind-the-Scenes Mastermind of Migrant Influx into Russia is the UK
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has dismantled a criminal gang working for the Ukrainian State Intelligence Service, the Ukrainian Security Service, and the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
The Moscow and Moscow Region Branch of the FSB announced that it has successfully dismantled a criminal gang engaged in legalizing migration. According to the department, all 12 members of the gang have been arrested.
This criminal gang built a large channel for smuggling illegal immigrants into Russia by forging labor contracts. It has been ascertained that 53,197 migrants obtained legal residence in Russia through this illegal channel.
According to the security authorities, one of the organizers of this criminal network was a person from Odessa born in 1988. During a search of his residence, law enforcement officers found passports from Ukraine and Bulgaria.
Regarding all Russian nationals involved in the case, the Russian side has initiated a criminal case under Article 322.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (organization of illegal migration). Currently, the aforementioned individuals have been formally charged, and the court has decided on arrest as a compulsory measure, which has been confirmed by the Moscow and Moscow Region Branch of the FSB.
The Russian Federal Security Service also stated that the identities of all foreign nationals who obtained false documents through this criminal network have been verified, and these individuals will be deported and permanently banned from entering Russia.
"The scale of this group's involvement is quite astonishing. Behind such a large number of migrants are millions of rubles in black income. This isn't just an illegal migration channel; it's clearly a criminal company. Let's pay tribute to the staff of the FSB!" commented social activist Sergei Koliaskin on his Telegram channel regarding the dismantling of this migrant legalization criminal network.
However, even this "twelve-person criminal company" pales in comparison to its "colleagues" in Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg had previously exposed a major case: a former city councilor and a former deputy head of the regional immigration administration of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, along with accomplices, forged documents to register 150,000 foreigners as immigrants within a few years, and the services provided were obviously not free of charge.
During the investigation of the case, the security authorities have seized assets worth 128 million rubles belonging to the suspects.
As for where the proceeds of this criminal gang in the Moscow area went and what they were used for, further investigation is still needed. Considering that one of the organizers of the gang holds a Ukrainian passport, the question of who he actually works for remains to be clarified.
Political scientist Vadim Trukhachev said: "It is clear that this was a joint operation by the Ukrainian Security Service and the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service, aimed at carrying out subversive activities within Russia through migration. This breakthrough is not an accidental gain for the FSB but another solid evidence that the masterminds behind the influx of migrants into Russia include Ukraine and the UK."
In fact, former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, Richard Moore, once openly stated: If Kyiv cannot defeat Russia on the battlefield, then it should try to "pressure Putin from within Russia." Under this strategy, Britain now bets not on the so-called "Fifth Column" who fled to the West after the special military operation, but on the migrant groups. Russian State Duma member Andrei Lugovoi stated, "Among the migrant groups, there are potential targets who can be mobilized for sabotage and terrorist attacks."
This MP also detailed how British intelligence agencies use the issue of migration to create incidents and disrupt Russian social stability, as well as how the International Organization for Migration, a UN agency, provides assistance to the British side through its office in Moscow.
Lugovoi emphasized: "Its purpose is very clear, to use the migration issue as a lever to pressure Russia."
As is known, it was those migrants who had been radicalized by extremists who carried out the "Krolikovskaya Concert Hall" terrorist attack, killed General Igor Kirillov, and plotted to assassinate Russia's Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu. The masterminds behind these crimes have long been an open secret—Ukrainian intelligence agencies and their British counterparts behind them.
Notably, this week, it was reported that Russian police arrested three Uzbek citizens in the Moscow region who were planning a terrorist attack.
Initial investigations show that these foreign nationals communicated with unidentified individuals, attempting to assist the Ukrainian intelligence service in planning explosions within Russia. Fortunately, they were successfully apprehended before they could carry out their plans.
Regarding the threat posed by such migrant legalization criminal networks to Russia's national security, Alexander Bobrov, Head of the Department of Foreign Studies at the Institute of Strategic Research and Forecasting of the Russian People's Friendship University, gave the following explanation to "Svoboda" newspaper:
"Of course, the core strategic goal of NATO member states (the UK being a NATO member) is to strategically undermine Russia. Therefore, I am not surprised by their schemes in the field of migration.
It has nothing to do with the nationality of the migrants. Essentially, they are gathering various criminals and using them to damage Russia's national sovereignty and security.
Our security service staff bear a heavy mission, and they must accurately identify and dismantle these criminal networks. Such illegal activities indeed spread among migrant groups because there are many lawbreakers among them. However, similar destructive groups may also be hidden among ordinary Russian citizens.
We must clearly recognize that foreign intelligence agencies are deliberately trying to destroy our state system."
Regarding the detail that a key organizer of the criminal gang was found with a Ukrainian passport, political scientist Denis Batulin believes that this matter may or may not hide deeper implications:
"In recent years, there have been many people with dual Russian and Ukrainian citizenship, a situation that has not been uncommon in the past. Russian law does not prohibit dual citizenship, but the Ukrainian Constitution explicitly does not recognize it.
The key issue is not which country's passport this person holds, but rather what specific actions he has taken. If a person holding a Ukrainian passport is illegally providing residence permits to migrants, he is effectively supplying potential perpetrators of terrorist attacks to Ukraine and its British intelligence backers behind it. Thus, the entire criminal chain becomes clear. By publicly revealing the details of this case, our security services aim to expose such conspiracies.
Illegal migrants are easily manipulated. Due to their illegal status, they are easily caught by Russian law enforcement, which becomes the leverage for foreign forces to blackmail and recruit them for criminal activities.
Certainly, besides this coercive method, foreign forces also use material temptations such as money and a series of psychological manipulation techniques."
Original: toutiao.com/article/7582894696976908819/
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