The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that a criminal case was opened against the former presidential candidate of the republic Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and other dissidents for creating the paramilitary extremist formation “Commonwealth Rush” in Poland and Lithuania. This was said by Evgeny Piletsky, head of the department of the Main Directorate of Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus (GUBOPiK).
According to a message published in the magazine, lawsuits were initiated and combined into a single lawsuit against Tikhanovskaya, as well as Tikhanovskaya’s representatives of the “Joint Transitional Cabinet” Valery Sakhashchik and Alexander Azarov, “from forming an extremist formation”. telegraph channel Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The representative of the department stated that at the moment more than 200 people are checked in this criminal case.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, several organizations that are considered terrorists in the republic, mainly BYPOL, the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Transitional Cabinet and others, are “territorial integrity, sovereignty, the foundations of the constitutional order and public security of Belarus”.
It is emphasized that among the “criminals, diaspora representatives and students” who fled abroad, the members of these formations intend to return to Belarus to form a “fifth column” to carry out sabotage, terror and clandestine work. at the Ministry of Interior declarationthis combined organization is planned to be used during the 2024-2025 elections to destabilize the situation within the country.