Prosecutor’s office decided not to initiate criminal case against Syarhei Mikhalok

No “misdemeanor dangerous for the society” has been found in the words of “Lyapis Trubetskoy” frontman by prosecutors, however the musician is not going to return to Belarus so far.

The prosecutor’s office is not going to open a criminal case against Syarhei Mikhalok, a musician of “Lyapis Trubetskoy” band, due to the for absence of elements of crime in his words. It is stated in the letter from the Prosecutor’s office of Minsk received by the lawyer of the musician, Euroradio reports.

“They write that, according to the results of this investigation, they took a procedural decision not to start a criminal case due to the absence of a misdemeanor under the criminal law, which would be dangerous for the society”, – a press-secretary of “Lyapis Trubetskoy” Alyaksandr Berger reads out the letter. –There is a date here - December 22, 2011, but we got this letter only in a month”.

However, Syarhei Mikhalok has not visited Belarus yet, and when he decides to do so, he will not make it publicly, Berger adds.

We remind that in Octo0ber 2011 Syarhei Mikhalok received a summon to come to the public prosecutor’s office of the Central district of Minsk. However, he was on tour abroad at that time and could not come. The investigator explained to Euroradio later that they had not started a criminal case, but conducted checking with regard to Mikhalok’s public statements about Alyaksandr Lukashenka, in which he harshly criticized the ruler of Belarus.