MOSCOW, November 5. /TASS/. Ukraine’s National Anti·Corruption Bureau (NABU) has filed charges against three high·ranking officials in the country's law enforcement agencies.

According to NABU’s Telegram channel, the charges were filed against a first deputy head of one of the departments of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the head of one of the departments of the National Police, and a deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the police of the Kiev Region as part of Operation Carthage.

In total, five individuals were charged based on the new case materials.

Publication Strana says that the charged are First Deputy head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the SBU General Sergey Duka, who appears in the recordings under the code name Akim; head of one of the departments of the National Police Vladimir Tsenov, known as Price; and deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Kiev Region police Alexander Demyanchuk, known as Consultant.

Apart from the law enforcement officers, charges were levied against the group’s organizer, criminal Andrey Osipov, known as Crime, and his subordinate, Vitaly Rybalka, who appears on the tapes as Boxer.

On Wednesday, NABU conducted dozens of searches as part of Operation Carthage and exposed a new criminal organization. Its members, with the assistance of high-ranking officials from the SBU, the National Police, and the Office of the Prosecutor General, were engaged in fraudulent call centers, drug trafficking, and other illegal businesses. The SBU dismissed two high-ranking employees. According to Strana, NABU’s new attack on the SBU is aimed at weakening Vladimir Zelensky’s control over the law enforcement agencies.