20.01.2021, 11:50
Pavel Sheremet
Former employee of the Belarusian special forces “Almaz”
Ihar Makar, who published a record with some speakers discussing the murder of journalist
Pavel Sheremet, testified in Ukraine. He himself told about this in an interview with “Nastoyascheye Vremya”.
Makar, an opposition activist and spokesman for the Belarusian People s Tribunal, was the one who provided EUobserver with a recording of a 2012 conversation with speakers discussing the murder of Pavel Sheremet. The 24-minute recording was allegedly made in the office of the head of the KGB during a meeting dedicated to the beginning of the work of the secret seventh department of the anti-terrorist unit “Alpha”. According to Makar s sources, the “Alpha” special unit was created in 2012, among other things, to solve tasks of terror and eliminate political competitors. In 2008-2012, the KGB of Belarus was headed by
The study was conducted by a reputable Criminal Investigation laboratory.
A study by the St. Petersburg Independent Inspection Services “Criminalistic Laboratory of Audiovisual Documents” confirmed the authenticity of the audio recording in which the head of the KGB of Belarus in 2008-2012
Vadzim Zaitsau planned a series of assassinations.
The expertise was ordered by the TV channel “Nastoyashcheye Vremya”.
Three men, one of whom was Vadzim Zaitsau, discuss poisoning and blasting with the help of “caches” of political emigrants from Belarus. “Elimination . should be so natural that then no expert should [find fault]. Just a targeted strike,” Zaitsau says.
A hidden recording of the conversation was published on January 4 by EUObserver, but it was impossible to confirm its authenticity due to poor quality.
New materials on the dictator s crimes will be published very soon.
Ihar Makar, the officer who uncovered the wiretap of the KGB chief who was planning to assassinate Pavel Sharamet, has spoken in his interview to Novaya Gazeta correspondent
Iryna Khalip about who he was handing the tape over to, who shot
Aliaksandr Taraikouski in Minsk on August 10, the atmosphere in the security agencies, and why it is a crime to take the Almaz special forces unit out into the streets.
The recording of the conversation that occurred eight years ago, in which the then KGB Chairman Vadzim Zaitsau and two members of the KGB special unit Alfa were discussing the future murder of at least four Belarusian citizens abroad, was made public by a former member of another special unit, who is also currently living abroad. There is a kind of near-artistic completeness about it.
In Kyiv, they are already examining the records on the journalist
Pavel Sharamet s case, published on December 4 in the EUobserver edition and on the Belaruski Narodny Trybunal channel. The audio recording shows a meeting of the then head of the KGB of Belarus
Vadzim Zaitsau, who is discussing with the officers how to kill several people abroad on Lukashenka s order.
Will the countries in which the murder was planned or took place take up the investigation, and how will the new facts affect the attitude towards Lukashenka on the part of Europe and Russia?
Ihar Makar, Aleh Alkaeu, Andrei Suzdaltsev, Aleh Volchek, Pavel Latushka, Dmytro Gnap, and