Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said he has information about Russian businessmen who financed protests in his country and will provide data to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I know the question very deeply, but I don’t want to speak under the camera. When my elder brother returns from Beijing, I have prepared the information. Here is the document that came to me – I will send it in an envelope with my resolution to Putin, let him read it, ”Lukashenko said in an interview with Russian journalist Vladimir Solovyov on February 6.
In particular, it is alleged that the Telegram channel Nexta, which Minsk considered one of the organizers of the protests, after which it was recognized as extremist in Belarus, is financed by businessmen from Russia.
On the same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he knew “nothing” about Lukashenka’s plans to pass information about Russian businessmen to Putin.
“I don’t know anything about this, and when there is a report, it will be handed over to the president, if our Belarusian partners and friends see fit. Further, it will be necessary to get acquainted with it until we know what will be discussed there, therefore it is too early to say anything, ”Peskov told reporters.
On February 6, Lukashenka said that after the detention of 33 Russians in the republic in 2020 on suspicion of organizing mass riots, he had a “tough conversation” with Putin. The Russian leader, in turn, offered to help in investigating cases of detention of Russian citizens.
Earlier, on January 28, Peskov said that the fate of any Russian is important for the President of the Russian Federation. Thus, he commented on the information that 458 Russians are in Belarusian prisons.
At the end of July 2020, a group of Russians were detained in the republic. It was alleged that they were allegedly employees of the Wagner PMC. According to Moscow, the detainees were on their way to Istanbul but missed their plane. A criminal case was initiated against them on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.
On August 14 of the same year, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported that 32 out of 33 Russians detained in Belarus had been returned home. Another citizen of Russia, who also has a Belarusian passport, remained on the territory of the republic.
After the presidential elections held in Belarus on August 9, 2020, which were won for the sixth time by Alexander Lukashenko, who, according to the Central Election Commission of the republic, won 80.1% of the vote, mass opposition protests began in the country. The results of the vote were not recognized by the United States and the EU countries.
Source: IZ
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