KGB uses office equipment seized from oppositionists

On May 30 oppositionists from Homel have visited the KGB directorate in order to get back their Xerox.

Two weeks ago the activists seized computers and office equipment seized during searches. It turned out that the Xerox was in bad repair. The KGB workers had not been able to repair the Xerox over all this time.

“We refused to take it, and offered the representatives of special services to repair the equipment. Today KGB men told us that the serviceman invited by them said that it was an old Xerox which beyond repair, though they had confiscated it in a working order,” BelaPAN was told by “For Freedom” activist Uladzimir Katsora.

As said by him, the owner of the house where the regional branch of the United Civil Party rents the office, Zinaida Shumilina, in a hand receipt for the KGB wrote that Xerox was returned in disrepair. Besides, a computer mouse was returned to Katsora. On May 16 it was absent. “One of the KGB men had lent it for his son, as I had been told last time. Now the mouse was returned,” the activist added.

We remind that 10 computers and notebooks were confiscated during the searches on January 6 and 26 in the headquarters of the United Civil Party and in the flats of the chairman of the UCP regional branch Vasil Palyakou and a human rights activist Leanid Sudalenka. KGB representatives explained their actions by the fact that the computers could be material evidence in December 19, 2010 “mass riots” criminal case.