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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukraine's tax chief tells it, the billion-dollar theft was planned at a see-through plastic table in a vault of sound-proof steel.
The table and six matching transparent chairs sit in a secret chamber on an upper story of the Tax Ministry in Kiev. It was the epicenter, he and other tax officials say, of a massive fraud suspected of squeezing 130 billion hryvnias ($11 billion) from Kiev's coffers over the past three years — an amount equal to more than half a year's tax revenue for the entire country.
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Exhibit A is the steel vault built into the center of the Tax Ministry, just across from Bilous' office. He said it was here that Klymenko and his cronies worked out how to divide the spoils of a system that had some 1,700 companies in its clutch. The secret chamber was equipped with a white-noise generator to beat eavesdroppers, and plastic furniture that allegedly helped make sure nobody was recording the goings-on.
Using transparent furniture to beat surveillance "is straight out of the old-school, Eastern Bloc, counterintelligence playbook," said Vince Houghton, curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington. East Germany's intelligence service, for example, kept transparent furniture in a chamber at its embassy in Rome.
It appears these guys knew what they were doing!
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Exhibit A is the steel vault built into the center of the Tax Ministry, just across from Bilous' office. He said it was here that Klymenko and his cronies worked out how to divide the spoils of a system that had some 1,700 companies in its clutch. The secret chamber was equipped with a white-noise generator to beat eavesdroppers, and plastic furniture that allegedly helped make sure nobody was recording the goings-on.
Using transparent furniture to beat surveillance "is straight out of the old-school, Eastern Bloc, counterintelligence playbook," said Vince Houghton, curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington. East Germany's intelligence service, for example, kept transparent furniture in a chamber at its embassy in Rome.
I'm guessing that what caused the whole scheme to unravel is that they forgot to use the most important piece of high-tech anti-spy technology of all.......
.......the CONE OF SILENCE.......
......................from the TV series Get Smart!........
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"My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line." -- David Mamet
You know, every time I hear someone mention the name of the country, "Ukraine," I have a twisted, perverted, an almost overwhelming desire to conjugate it!
Regarding the title of the thread, "How to do it, Ukraine style", I seem to remember from my vast store house of knowledge of "Things Ukrainian" that when they do it Ukraine style, whoever has the hryvnia gets to be on top.
Or, maybe it's: "whoever has the biggest hryvnia gets to be on top".
I'm not sure. I did it Ukraine style so many times over the years, it affected my memory.
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What’s really tricky is learning how to say “hryvnia! hryvnia! hryvnia!" clearly, forcefully, and quickly -- without accidentally giving yourself a Ukrainian “hervnia”.
"My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line." -- David Mamet
"Hryvnia, Hryvnia, Hryvnia" sounds like the noise an old collective farm tractor makes when someone is trying to start it.
Actually, "hryvnia" comes from the Russian "grivennik", which is their term for a ten-kopek coin (much as the "dime" is our name for a ten-cent coin).
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Almost want to lock the thread before Famspear pops out a limerick....
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JamesVincent wrote:Almost want to lock the thread before Famspear pops out a limerick....
Not much danger of that, I guess. It's hard to fit "hryvnia" into a limerick.
If anyone could figure out how to fit that into a bad limerick you could.
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You really had to stretch to find that one, heaven help us!!!!
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