CEC member stabbed to death at home

Sviatlana Khinevich, a member of the Central Election Committee (CEC), was found stabbed to death at her home on August 4.

Information about the death of a high-ranking official appeared on the CEC website four days after the event.

“Sviatlana Khinevich's son found her stabbed at home,” Mikalai Lazavik, a spokesman for the Central Election Commission, said to Salidarnasts. “It happened on August 4. I tried to get more information from the law-enforcement bodies investigating the murder. I talked to an investigator and asked to tell me details he was allowed to say. He answered the investigation was under way and no details could be disclosed.”

Sviatlana Khinevich was born in Minsk in 1959. She graduated from Belarusian State University in 1981.

She was elected a member of the Central Commission on Elections and Republican Referendums in December 2011. She had worked as the head of the department for personnel and ideology at the Main Economic Department at the President’s Property Management Directorate.

Her latest job was the head of the personnel department at Minsk Kristall distillery.