KGB Chairman: “It was prevention”

• 25.03.2008, 15:23

The chairman of the KGB (State Security Committee) of Belarus Yury Zhadobin has stated that nobody was detained in the case of a spy network which worked under cover of the US Embassy in Minsk.

“Nobody was detained. We are performing our functions. The main function is to prevent, avoid perpetration of a crime,” the head of the Belarusian KGB stated answering a question of Interfax agency in Minsk on Tuesday.

“That is why the KGB system has such a method as prevention. Prevention can be general and individual one, and in this case we are engaged in preventive work,” Zhadobin said. At present, as said by him, “a check-out is held, to which extent this or that article of the law had been violated”.

The KGB chief stated: “We hereby confirm that the information about this group being exposed on TV is completely true”. “It’s that somebody is trying to dictate us their laws at our territory, speaking in Russian, ‘to break into another’s monastery imposing one’s rule of life’, is unacceptable and is not permitted to anyone,” the KGB head emphasized.