Belarusian police have detained a man who, in a neighboring country, had been disclosing the identities of police and National Guard officers, allegedly to further prosecute them. The information was made public by Interior Minister Yury Karayeu in the House of Representatives, BelTA informs.
Yury Karayeu said that this man had been hiding in Belarus for six months: “He’d been found to have detected the policemen and the National Guard in the neighboring country in order to establish and create the whole program of their prosecution”.
“I do not know if he is an agent of the special services, I can’t say claim this yet. But he was involved in such a project, hunting down the police and the National Guard officials,” said the minister.
“There was an entire organization, all were detained,” he added.
Karayeu gave neither the names of the detainees nor the country where they were allegedly involved in revealing the identity of the law enforcement officers. But it’s likely to be Russia.
In early June, a telegram channel Parator which is closely linked to the law enforcement agencies, reported on the detention of 28-year-old Russian citizen Dmitry Popov, who was associated with the Country for Life team. In Russia, Popov is involved in the Scanner project: its purpose was to disclose the names of Russian security forces involved in the beating of citizens during the violent dispersal of peaceful protests in Moscow.
Karayeu also did not explain under which article of the Criminal Code the detainees are accused and whether there are Belarusian citizens among them.
