Did KGB Take Into Custody Former Senior Interior Ministry Officer?

This has been reported by blogger NEXTA.

Another high-profile detention occurred in Belarus on January 24. The KGB has taken into custody former head of the 2nd Department of the Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption Uladzimir Tikhinia - according to rumors, for bribery, the NEXTA Telegram-channel reports.

The salt of the situation is that just two days earlier, on January 22, he received an honorary medal of the Interior Ministry.

The officer resigned from his post just over a month ago, on December 16. Prior to that, the senior Interior Ministry official had repeatedly turned up in the press, he was called "the menace of thieves in the law" and "star of criminal investigation".