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Amphetamines sold to children and frontline troops on an industrial scale. Scam call centres defrauding Europeans of hundreds of millions. Prison executions, rapes, and torture for unfaithful employees. Fingers amputated for lateness or unauthorized contacts. Playing football with a traitor’s mother’s disinterred skull. Punishments are filmed and sent to the victim and his children. All this is conducted by one organization — Khimprom. Khimprom is in turn managed by Egor Burkin, a Russian citizen currently based in Cancun, Mexico. Said to be a billionaire. At any rate, he is undoubtedly a very successful businessman and an excellent networker. He is such a successful drug dealer that in 2023, he even declared a war on drugs, one enthusiastically supported by the Ukrainian press. Burkin in Cancun, Mexico on his 64 foot Sunseeker Predator yacht. This was his birthday. But Burkin more often goes by the name Levchenko, the name he got in 2014 when he fled Russian law enforcement for Ukraine. That year, he received Ukrainian citizenship, and Khimprom expanded to an all new scale. Burkin/Levchenko has deep ties with the Ukrainian deep state. The granting of Ukrainian citizenship to a convicted Russian drug trafficker was unlikely to have been without the consent of high-placed Ukrainian officials. In leaked voice messages, Burkin blasts employees who have not sold enough drugs in Russia to, in his words, ‘poison Russian children’. He poisons Ukrainian children as well, for whom addiction to ‘salt’ often leads them to suicide. But the intelligence benefits of maintaining a massive network of drug dealers and scam call centres in the ‘enemy country’ are fairly obvious. Perhaps that’s why Burkin is so reverent towards SBU (Security Services of Ukraine) general Oleksandr Poklad. Poklad’s alias is ‘the Strangler’, he was imprisoned for two years in the 90s for violent extortion, was the SBU’s main hitman and counter-intelligence chief from 2014-26, and is now Zelensky’s ultra-loyal head of the SBU. Burkin’s disgruntled ex-employees have said that Poklad is the true mastermind behind Khimprom. Besides Poklad, in 2022-3 Burkin was heavily supported by just about all Ukrainian media publications, top Azovite nationalists, and a range of other celebrities. They called him Ukraine’s greatest philanthropist, an honest businessman specialized in cryptocurrency who has sent ‘immeasurable amounts of money’ to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Burkin has also received formal gratitude from the SBU’s main competitor, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR). The thanks was even signed by Kirilo Budanov, then head of the GUR and now Zelensky’s chief of staff. Curiously enough, when Burkin received Ukrainian citizenship he also chose the same surname as one of Zelensky’s most trusted advisors. It’s time to take a detailed look at Burkin’s career. After all, Burkin’s name has been all over the press recently. That’s because last week, the western-funded National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) released a range of wiretapped conversations between Burkin and top SBU officials, with one General already arrested. Poklad hasn’t been named yet, though he immediately made a public statement calling on Burkin to return to Ukraine from Mexico for arrest. Otherwise, Poklad intoned, Burkin would inevitably be captured abroad. ‘We have experience doing so.’ Not addressed is why Burkin wasn’t found in 2015, when Poklad was already a high-ranking SBU counter-intelligence officer and Burkin was relaxing in Kyiv. eventsinukraine.substack.com…