In Open Words

Journalist Pavel Sheremet two days prior to the trial on Zavadsky’s affair had gathered a press-conference in Moscow, where announced that even if Ihnatovich’s gang had been involved in the affair with the abduction of his operator, it would have been possible only if they performed some other will. Sheremet called present General Prosecutor of Belarus Viktor Shejman a client, who had ordered the murder. In spring 2000 he held a post of the Head of The Security Council and was interested in making away the witness of activities of Belarusian special troops in Chechnya.

This information Sheremet received from former General Prosecutor of Belarus Oleh Bozhelko, who escaped from Belarus last summer and went to Russia, where had been hiding in one of the monasteries near Jaroslavl. Shortly before presidential elections in September he mysteriously returned to Minsk and renounced his words.

Since then no word has been pronounced by Bozhelko concerning the topic of “sound disappearances.”
Incidentally, just after the announcement of the court the verdict on Zavadsky’s trial, Pavel Sheremet with reference to Bozhelko said:

“Dmitry is not alive, he has undergone a torture, his backbone was broken and it was decided to finish him off – otherwise it would be impossible to keep in secret this felony. He had been tried to elicit what he had known about the secret operations of Belarusian authorities in the Caucasus and Chechnya.”

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