Interpol has placed Andriy Naumov, former head of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on the international wanted list. This was at the request of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). However, despite this, the SBI is presenting this event as an important victory, although Naumov has been on the wanted list for over two years.
As noted, on August 26, 2024, a red notice was published in the records of the Interpol General Secretariat.
“Among other things, the State Bureau of Investigation suspects a former official of fraudulently embezzling over UAH 3.2 million while serving as the head of a state-owned enterprise during 2019-2021,” the report says.
The former SBU general was detained on June 7, 2022, while attempting to travel from Serbia to North Macedonia in a vehicle carrying €592,000, $120,000, and two precious stones.
The investigation is ongoing.
The State Bureau of Investigation does not name the former general, but the published photo (ABOVE) and details of the case indicate that it is Andriy Naumov.
Naumov's case
In January 2024, former general, former head of the Main Department of Internal Security of the SBU, Andriy Naumov, who was sentenced to a year in prison in Serbia for money laundering, was released.
The court clarified that Naumov was released from a Serbian prison in early December 2023. However, due to the consideration of an appeal against the sentence, his documents were seized and he was banned from leaving the country.
There are two criminal proceedings against Naumov in Ukraine. One concerns the simultaneous receipt of a salary from the SBU and from a state-owned enterprise where Naumov worked before joining the special service. The other concerns the period when he headed the “Center for Organizational, Technical and Information Support for the Management of the Exclusion Zone.” According to the investigation, Naumov entered into a knowingly unprofitable contract with a fictitious enterprise and unjustifiably accrued bonuses for himself.
From the summer of 2019 to the summer of 2021, Naumov headed the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU under the leadership of Ivan Bakanov. In October 2020, President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Naumov the military rank of brigadier general, although at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he stripped him of it, calling the former SBU official a “traitor.”.
Naumov left Ukraine on the eve of Russia's invasion, and in the summer of 2022 he was detained in Serbia with undeclared cash – about 600 thousand euros and $120 thousand. There, a case was opened against him and he was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
