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Prosecutor general Viktor Sheiman claims that the detention of the lieutenant-colonel Dmitry Pavlichenko had nothing to do with the vanishings of the Belarusian opposition politicians, reads the response, received yesterday to the inquiry of the deputy of the “house of representatives”, general Valery Frolov.
Prosecutor general doesn’t rule out the fact of the “preventive detention of the commander of the operative brigade 3214 Pavlichenko” on November 22, 2000. The lieutenant-colonel was detained upon the command of a then KGB chief of Belarus Vladimir Matskevich.

As becomes clear from the answer of the prosecutor general, the KGB head suspected Pavlichenko of “having committed violent actions against employee of the revision department of the Ministry of culture Grachev… Due to the illegitimacy of the detention on November 23, 2000 Pavlichenko was set free upon the KGB brass order”.
As concerns the disappearance of Zakharenko, Zavadsky, Gonchar and Krasovsky, Viktor Sheiman cites already known facts, though there also are some remarkable nuances. For instance, Radio Svaboda quotes him as saying that the outcomes of the genetic expertise, carried out in the place of Gonchar and Krasovsky’s disappearance, give grounds to believe that the bloodstains belong to Gonchar with a 99,6% plausibility, while their belonging to Krasovsky is totally excluded. Sheiman said that the witnesses’ testimony evidence that Gonchar, Zakharenko and Krasovsky could have been abducted by the unidentified persons.