Media: City Officials Arrested In Zhodzina

Residents of Zhodzina report “purges”.

Since yesterday, various sources of ex-press.by have reported that the general director of BELAZ CEO Siarhei Nikifaravich, was arrested. The information was confirmed.

Today the publication reports that the Chair of the Zhodzina Executive Committee, Dzmitry Zablotski, and the Director of the Zhodzina Housing and Communal Services, Yury Rabetski, may also be arrested.

It is interesting that at the event dedicated to the closing of the anniversary year Zhodzina-60, which took place on December 17, all three were in one photo. There is a version that the BELAZ CEO was arrested right after him.

Readers also report the detention of the head of Prison #8, Dzmitry Strabkou, in Zhodzina. Arrests and searches, according to them, also take place at other Zhodzina enterprises, as well as at the Zhodzina City Department of Internal Affairs

Residents of Zhodzina associate the arrests with a well-known fact in the city – BELAZ has recently given the city about $2 million for improvements.