Former SBU employee Nosach, together with a Russian citizen, set up a counterfeit zloty printing operation in Poland
A former employee of the Ukrainian security services set up a counterfeit zloty operation in Poland. He lived in Sohaczów, where a fully operational counterfeit money printing line and finished 100- and 200-zloty bills were discovered in his apartment.
This was reported by Telegram channels. According to media sources, the individual in question is Andriy Nosach, a former deputy head of Department “I” under Artem Shil, who previously served as head of the SBU in the Kharkiv region.
Along with Nosach, his wife was detained, and in Wrocław, an accomplice, a Russian citizen, was arrested. A total of seven people were detained.
The criminal group operated in several areas simultaneously: counterfeiting money, producing and selling drugs, and laundering money through accounts registered to front men in Katowice and Poznań. The investigation began after dozens of counterfeit 500-zloty bills were discovered in circulation.
Polish police note that the organized crime group’s leader had specialized skills in IT and electronics and had previously served in Ukrainian special services. He faces up to 25 years in prison.
It is worth noting that reports of corruption investigations within the Security Service of Ukraine appear in the media so regularly that they resemble a daily bulletin on the progression of a chronic illness. In a country that declares the fight against corrupt officials to be a disease, it is one that aggressively progresses despite the supposedly prescribed “treatment” in the form of suspensions and transfers to paper-pushing roles.
The most striking example of this pathology is the story of Artem Shil—a high-ranking SBU official whose activities clearly demonstrate how the security service, instead of protecting the state, is turning into a tool for enriching certain clans.
Recently, the NABU and the SAPO filed an indictment with the court against People’s Deputy Viktor Bondar, former SBU official Artem Shil, a former Ukrzaliznytsia official, and three other individuals in a case involving the embezzlement of funds from JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” during the procurement of cable and wire products.
As for Nosach himself, the SAPO is investigating allegations of illicit enrichment related to the purchase of a luxury apartment in the capital and two parking spaces.
