To tax authorities, courts, security forces, KRAIL: The scales of Pin-UP’s bribery of Ukrainian state organs and law enforcement are unveiled
As anticipated, the first two episodes of the shocking exchanges between Pin-UP’s "puppet" Ihor Zotko and the Russians have left the public in complete disbelief.
Episode three: "We Are Not Russian!"
Indeed, it’s not every day you hear how Russian business can easily buy state institutions, courts, law enforcement, and even gain access to secret documents from NSDC meetings even during wartime.
Tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian businesses easily cross any red lines of morality and conscience, solving Russian problems.
Sometimes to tax authorities, sometimes to courts, to security forces, definitely to KRAIL.
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And also to buy the majority of media with advertising so that no one notices that Russians are indeed Russians.
And a separate budget for discrediting those who dare to call things by their names.
As Zotko said in one of the chats: "It is necessary to form a message in the information field that the traitors of Ukraine are those who write about this case."
(With Pin-UP buying bloggers and media, there will be many more surprises. Let’s not rush).
And this is just private business.
Imagine if Russian business can so easily infiltrate our state bodies and buy out everyone, what is the level of integration of Russian state interests and money of Putin’s machine?
It’s terrifying even to imagine this.
But let’s return to the facts presented by the prosecutor.
Today, a relatively light episode that demonstrates that even in 2024, Pin-UP not only had Russian roots but also continued to operate there on its own platforms.
And when the State Bureau of Investigations began to explore this, Ilyina and Zotko discussed how to counteract this.
They allocated $70,000 for a counter-expertise that would prove it wasn’t them, and at the same time discussed how to block investigators’ access to their Russian resources.
Particular attention should be paid to Zotko’s phrase in a chat with Punin, Matyashov, Bannikov, and Ilyina that: "The main thing is that they do not tie you to Pin-UP."
P.S. Next week, you will encounter episodes where the prosecutor of the General Prosecutor’s Office presents facts about acquiring Ilyina’s family’s assets in the LPR during the SVO and financing SVO veterans.
It will be very interesting.
Author: Yevhen Plynskyi
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