Confession of investigator: Belarusian policemen would change the regime willingly (Video)
- 16.12.2010, 11:37
New sensational confessions about violations of the law in Belarus appeared on YouTube.
A policemen bears testimony again. This time it is a former investigator from Zhodzina Andrei Pyzhyk. He was ordered by the authorities to dispose of an Afghan war veteran, who had become an opposition leader in the city. The investigator refused. In retaliation his career was ruined, “Nasha Niva” informs.
On October 22 2008 the leader of “Fatherland’s Defenders” combatants association, a former Afghan war combatant Alyaksandr Kamarouski was on his way to Poland. At the border false US dollars were found in his things. As it turned out during the investigation, they had been planted on him.
A criminal case was opened in Brest. The Economic Crime Department held a search at his place and in the office of Kamarouski.
The documents of the case were received by the senior investigator Pyzhyk, who had been working for Zhodzina police then. He started to investigate the case, and noticed incongruities immediately. The investigator took the materials of the case and came to the prosecutor of Zhodzina. He said openly: “Kamarouski runs for a position of a deputy, but he should not.” And he sent the investigator to the head of the city court. In the office of the head of the court there was a guest from Minsk, a deputy head of Lukashenka’s administration, Anatoly Rubinau.
“The case files have been studied by me. I do not see any grounds for opening a criminal case,” the investigator said.
As said by investigator Pyzhyk, in response Rubinau started to shout and make threats.
“He must serve time in jail. The case should be forwarded to the court as soon as possible,” Rubinau stated.
Finally, under duress investigator Pyzhyk opened the criminal case.
However, as he was working with this case, he simply got convinced that the case had been trumped up.
The investigator discovered that the search in the apartment of Kamarouski was held by thee law-enforcers, and only one was written down in the report. No one from attesting witnesses had seen the allegedly false dollars.
And the investigator took a decision on termination of Kamarouski’s prosecution, as he realized that Kamarouski is innocent.
When the investigator reported to his superior about his decision, the latter started to “roar, shout at him.” When the prosecutor was informed about the decision of the investigator, in a blaze of anger he threw outside the door the case materials.
“You will be imprisoned instead of Kamarouski!” he said to the investigator.
As a result, investigator Andrei Pyzhyk was forced to quit his job.
The pressure on the investigator continued after his dismissal as well. In order to intimidate him, among other things, he was sentenced to 5 days of arrest, for alleged foul speech in a public place. However, Andrei Pyzhyk had not caved in.
It is not the first sensational testimony of a policeman in this election campaign. Thus, police lieutenant colonel Mikalai Kazlou told about the mechanism of electoral fraud in Minsk. After the previous election Academician Rubinau received a new post: now he is the head of the “house of the republic”; he was sitting in the presidium of the “All-Belarusian Congress” beside Lukashenka.
“It is Lukashenka’s administration who decide who would take part in the elections, and who should be locked up,” Andrei Pyzhyk affirms.
Policemen would change the regime willingly, the former investigator says.