Vouchak: Sensational video could have been stove-piped by services

It is possible that amid personnel reshuffle someone wanted to fend off threat from himself.

A former investigator of the Prosecutor General’s Office Aleh Vouchak believes that it is no mere chance that the video recording of the “people in mufti” who were allegedly involved in the Kastrychnitskaya (October) metro station blast in Minsk were not posted on the web.

On January 17 photo and video recording of four me who allegedly left October metro station from the side of the House of Officers with a military blasting unit, a reel of firing wire and a big heavy bag full of unknown angular objects. Belarusian netizens started to suspect the persons on the pictures to be involved in the blast.

Based upon the pictures, they had been recorded by a correspondent of BelTA news agency cameraman. The time of the filming is impossible to find out, but these people in mufti left the metro station a few minutes after the blast. At the same time it is visible that they went up the stairs of the subway near the House of Officers before the very eyes of dozens of Minsk dwellers who had gathered near Kastychnitskaya metro station.

As said by Aleh Vouchak, special services could have been a party to “stove-piping” of this information. It is possible that someone wanted to fend off threat from oneself amid the personnel reshuffle started in the Interior Affair Ministry of Belarus. Who could dare to hype this story with the video at one’s website, when the IP-address could be checked, Aleh Vouchak said in an interview to Belsat TV channel.

However, in any way the Prosecutor’s Office should examine this video and identify the persons, the former investigator believes. Their faces are seen clearly, and it would be easy to find out what they were carrying in their bags.

The legal framework for investigation is given by the notion “the newly discovered facts of the case”. It is necessary as there are people sentenced to death for this terrorist attack, and the incident can cast light upon the circumstances of the case, Vouchak believes.