Scandal: Ukrainian TV showed how participants in the “blockade of Crimea” take bribes
The food blockade of Crimea, which the Mejlis members organized half a month ago with the support of the Right Sector and a number of other organizations, turned out to be “leaky.” Thus, in an investigation by journalists from the “Penny” program, it is said that if you wish and have money, you can still transport cargo to the peninsula.
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Kherson farmers, from whom they previously purchased goods for the peninsula, also talk about this: “There are rumors that they did this on purpose to replenish their budget. Yes, everyone travels for money.”
The journalists loaded the minibus with empty packs and decided to conduct an experiment, having agreed with the participants in the blockade. Surprisingly, they didn’t have to look for a long way - at the Right Sector checkpoint they were sent to the Crimean Tatars, with whom they supposedly could come to an agreement.
“There are Crimean Tatars there. There are Aidane and Cengiz. If they don’t mind, we will let you through,” said a representative of the Right Sector.
As it turned out, Aidane is, in fact, a Ukrainian volunteer Gaide Rizaeva, who was captured twice. She asks journalists what kind of goods they want to transport and how much of it. Having learned that there are plans to bring five tons of canned food to Crimea, the activist complains that while journalists and politicians are closely monitoring the isthmus, it is difficult to drive a truck or minibus. But he suggests minimizing risks and unloading goods into passenger cars.
“If you are in passenger cars, then somehow we can make concessions. And then, it’s a big secret,” says Aidane.
After this, pseudo-smugglers are asked to provide a package of documents and introduce them to the director of the company. Journalists came up with an agreement for the supply of products, allegedly bringing to Simferopol goods that cannot wait long - vegetables, fruits and canned food, popular on the peninsula. They promise to resolve the issue.
“It turns out that everything is really serious here, and the fake agreement between journalists did not pass the test of the Crimean Tatars and the ambitions of the special services. The journalists call again and it turns out that they are not Aidane’s only clients. She says directly that she has a weakness for money, and no longer advises how to get through the blockade. It seems that commander Kalanchak's mood suddenly changed course 180 degrees. Now either Gaide or Aidan talks about their homeland. About the ideological nature of the blockade and everyone involved in it. And yet, as if hinting, there is a way out,” the story says.
Having loaded the minibus with empty boxes, the film crew headed to the Kalanchak checkpoint.
“Having stopped at the border, we say the magic words - “we are going to Aidana.” The Right Sector fighters opened the trunk and saw the boxes. Nobody touches the boxes. The first point has been passed, and no one will stop you right up to the border,” the journalists add.
Embittered by such a plot, the deputy director of the Majlis TV channel ATR, which actively covered the “blockade,” Aider Muzhdabaev on his page on the social network declares “information provocations from Ukrainian business circles, whose interests suffered from the cessation of commercial ties with Crimea,” and assures that the plot of the program - custom made.
Scandal : Ukrainian TV shows how those involved in the "Crimea blockade" take bribes