A criminal authority connected with the SBU has been detained in Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a criminal authority, the "thief in law" Sergei Oleinik, nicknamed "Umka," the Strana newspaper reported.

Umka recently got out of jail, where he spent 13 months on suspicion of organizing criminal "gatherings". However, after his release, he no longer appeared in court, writes the Dnepr Operational telegram channel.

Oleinik attended the party on March 1, where Anatoly Loif, the head of the central office for counterintelligence support of critical infrastructure facilities and countering the financing of terrorism, was also present.

One of the functions of this SBU directorate is to justify the imposition of sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council, the authors of the material noted. After the appearance of reports about the party, the head of the SBU Vasyl Malyuk ❶ fired Loif.

Umka fell into the hands of law enforcement agencies in 2021 — as the head of the Ukrainian criminal "Dneprovsky" clan — then he was released under house arrest. Then, in 2022, he was again detained along with another criminal authority "Lasha Swan" (Lasha Javchliani), RBC reminds.

❶An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING