How Belarusian Officials Become Telephone Hooligans

Officials are selected to the local government for their loyalty, but not for professionalism.

Asipovichy is a town of the partisan fame. During the Second World War, raiders were destroyed here echelons with Hitler's troops and paralyzing the delivery of tanks to the front. But since then the scale of the raiders has grown smaller, now they only paralyze the work of the law enforcement agencies without the use of explosives. So, in late April, an Asipovichy resident mined the district police department and the KGB. No one was hurt, Belsat writes.

"The man called and reported on the bomb threat at the local buildings of the District Office of Internal Affairs and the KGB. The employees got out of the building, no explosives were found and the caller was traced. A criminal case under Article 340 of the Criminal Code was initiated against him," – the Investigative Committee informs.

That is, a deliberately misleading report of danger carries up to five years of imprisonment. As independent journalists learned, and then the investigators professed it, the telephone terrorist appeared to be Deputy Chairman of the Asipovichy District Executive Committee Aliaksandr Shauliuha. The official was in charge of ideology and education issues, worked with such organizations as the BRYU and Belaya Rus. Aliaksandr Shauliuha was supposed to fight with traumatism and drunkenness at work, with the so-called dependency and parasitism of the unemployed.

Shauliuha was fired after the report on false bomb threat.

The photo and information about the official disappeared from the district executive committee website only the other day.

"He’s a good man, I know him only from a good side. Maybe some kind of eclipse has come upon him."

"Most likely, he was drunk," – local residents shared their opinion.

The Investigation Committee also reported that Shauliuha could have been drunk. It's still unknown if that could be some kind of his revenge to the KGB and the police for something. But the very fact of the incident says a lot about it.

Random people come to power in regions.

Viktar Karneyenka, the former deputy chairman of the Homel City Council, thinks that officials are selected for loyalty, not professionalism. So there is simply no real local government now.

"I remember the times when I worked in the local government. Then you could just come into my office and talk to me. Try to do it today - you will see a police officer," – Karneyenka notes.

Information about the local government remains closed –thus, the action of the pseudo-miner did not get into the police report. But the citizens helped journalists to find out the truth.