General Prosecutor Office refused to check information about arms sales to FARC terrorists

Leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka has received an answer from the General Prosecutor Office, where he addressed with an offer to make an investigation over the fact of Belarusian arms sales to Colombian terrorist from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

“As the information has been spread by the sources, whose reliability and objectivity is in doubt, there are no grounds for check and taking procuracy measures of reactions over the fact,” the website ucpb.org. quotes the answer.

Anatol Lyabedzka thinks unwillingness of the prosecutor office to investigate is a striking example of its self-discredit. “This institution doesn’t regard possible support of international terrorists as a problem,” the politician said. “It also think the information about contracts on arms sales to Venezuela for some hundreds dollars is corruption.”

The answer of the General Prosecutor Office reads “his appeal on publication in foreign media and on the Internet data concerning the Republic of Belarus has been studied.”

A reason of such behaviour is that the information spread by foreign media touched not the Republic of Belarus, but “concrete persons, whose names are shamefacedly or carefully hushed up by the prosecutor office,” Anatol Lyabedzka guesses.

It should be reminded that information about Belarusian arms sales to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), recognised as a terroristic organisation by the international community, was spread by powerful Spanish El Pais daily and EuroNews TV channel referring to Interpol experts.

As El Pais states, state secretary of the Security Council Viktar Sheiman was “one of those who negotiated 720 million euro contracts for supply of weapons to Venezuela which were signed last year.”

An attempt to present El Pais daily as a yellow press and EuroNews channel as a purveyor of gossips is demonstration of ignorance, Anatol Lyabedzka thinks. This case, in his view, just confirms the necessity and urgency of civil and public control over the authorities.

“It is impossible to overcome arbitrary rule, corruption and lies of the authorities without it,” the opposition politician emphasised. “Until the citizens have an opportunity to influence procuracy, none of the much publicized cases, whether it be kidnapping of opponents to the regime or arms supplies for terrorists, will be investigated.”

After his address, Anatol Lyabedzka was called to the general Prosecutor Office, where he was warned against criminal responsibility for a “patently false information” in the connection with his demand to investigate the reliability of the information about Belarusian arms supplies for Venezuela.