Ukraine s journalist murder case goes international
Demonstrators in Kiev at a Pavel Sheremet memorial rally in 2017 (Photo: kyivpost.com)
Brussels, 12. Jan, 07:06
Ukrainian police have visited an undisclosed EU state to collect fresh evidence on a potential Belarusian link to the murder of one of eastern Europe s best-known journalists, Pavel Sheremet, four years ago.
The Ukrainian delegation was to interview Igor Makar, a 37-year old Belarusian ex-special forces officer, who recently came forward with a bugged recording of Belarus former spy-chief discussing Sheremet s assassination, which was published by this website.
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Makar assured the information was transferred to Ukraine, Russia and even the Belarusian Foreign Ministry back in 2012.
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Former officer with the Belarusian spec-ops forces Igor Makar who has recently made public audio recordings alleging the involvement of the Belarusian top security leadership in the elimination of political dissidents, including the assassination in a car blast in Kyiv of journalist Pavel Sheremet, says the Ukrainian special services were warned about the preparation of the crime back in 2012.
In an interview with the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, he said he had sent the recordings of the conversation of April 11, 2012, as well as all the information with the names, to the U.S. diplomats. On the tapes, ex-KGB head in Belarus Vadim Zaitsev, together with the two officers with the Alpha anti-terrorist speci
Report: Lukashenko loyalists plotted murders in Germany
Officials plotted an assassination campaign against exiled dissidents and opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko, according to a clandestine recording.
Germany was one of the intended sites for a campaign of attacks on exiled Belarusian dissidents and opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko, according to a clandestine recording published by the online news platform
EUobserver on Monday. The audio file appears to feature a conversation from April 2012 involving former Belarusian intelligence service (KGB) head Vadim Zaitsev and two unidentified men, who are presumed to be state security officers.
The recording was passed on to
EUobserver by the Belarusian dissident Igor Makar. He told DW that he was sent the file by an anonymous source in the KGB. Makar is the former deputy commander of the Almaz Special Anti-Terrorism Unit, which is attached to the Interior Ministry, and he has been living in exile in Ger
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