MINSK – The Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) has included former presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, member of the Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council Pavel Latushko, and 15 other Belarusian citizens on a list of organizations and individuals involved in terrorist activities, the KGB said on April 2.
“The KGB Investigative Directorate is investigating a criminal case initiated by the Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office with regard to participants in the BYPOL initiative based on a fact of the organization of acts of terrorism in the cities of Borisov and Minsk on March 25, 2021, committed by Vyacheslav Maleychuk,” it said.
“It has been determined that S. Tikhanovskaya, P. Latushko, and 15 [other] citizens of the Republic of Belarus staying abroad were involved in said organization’s unlawful activities,” the KGB said.
A total of 18 individuals have been charged in a criminal case dealing with an act of terrorism committed by an organized group (Belarusian Criminal Code Article 16, Part 4 and Article 289, Part 3). The suspects have been placed on the international wanted list, it said.
The KGB has drawn up documents to have Tikhanovskaya extradited from Lithuania and Latushko from Poland, it said.
All the individuals implicated in the criminal case have been put on the list of organizations and individuals involved in terrorist activities, the KGB said.
