| Ukrainian MP says security officers planted wiretapping device in office |
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| Monday, 16 August 2010 19:07 |
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MP Andriy Senchenko, the head of the Crimean republican organization of the Fatherland party, which is headed by oppositionist and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, has accused officers of the Security Service of Ukraine of illegal planting a wiretapping device in his office. He said this at a news conference in Simferopol today.
"Our 'visitors' left gifts. A network cable stuck out from under the carpet. When we pulled it, an odd-looking device was found. I appealed to experts and they gave me a scanner. With the held of the scanner, we established that it was a wiretapping device," Senchenko said.
He added that the device was found in his the waiting room at his office. SBU officers searched the offices of Senchenko and MP Serhiy Velizhanskiy of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the centre of Simferopol on August 11.
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