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Belarus KGB blackmails the resident of Lithuania

Belarus KGB blackmails the resident of Lithuania

The citizen of Lithuania agreed to cooperate with the Belarusian KGB because of threats on the part of an agent.

The spouse of Romuald Lipskis, suspected of espionage for Belarus, told about significant changes six months before his arrest. The woman confessed that in Soviet times she used to work in the KGB, but after Lithuania became independent she was never asked about her old job, zw.lt reports.

Since 1986 the woman has been working in a state-owned airline "Oro navigacija", where her husband used to work before detention. She told the Court that in Soviet period she worked as a telephone operator for eight months in the KGB. "Later I went on a maternity leave and did not return," the wife of the accused told.

According to her testimony, six months before the arrest, her husband began to behave very strangely: drank alcohol, smoked and accompanied her everywhere. "I even thought that he got sick," the woman said, adding that her husband's arrest was a big surprise.

A prosecutor accused Lipskis of his meeting with Belarusian KGB officer Siarhei Kurulenka and delivering copies of documents to him. "I recognize I photographed documents, but it wasn’t my fault. I did it, so that the KGB left me," the suspect explained. According to him, the papers were not secret, Belsat TV channel reports.

Lipskis's lawyer told journalists that his client had not received money from the Belarusian KGB, and agreed to work only because of threats on the part of the agent.

In early November 2014, the General Prosecutor's Office of Lithuania announced the arrest of its citizen, suspected of espionage in favour of Belarus. The arrested was Romuald Lipskis, who worked as an electrician in the company "Oro navigacija". According to the Lithuanian Prosecutor's Office, the man photographed secret papers and other objects, and then sent in Belarus. The Prosecutor's Office does not exclude that the Belarusian intelligence shared information with their Russian counterparts.

It turned out that the suspect was arrested about a year ago, and he was officially charged on November 10, 2014 of espionage in favour of a foreign State, which provides a penalty in the form of deprivation of liberty for a term up to 15 years.

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