Zinaida Gonchar Requires to Pass Her Husband’s Disappearance Case to KGB :: Charter'97 :: News

Zinaida Gonchar and Irina Krasovskaya demand to resume investigation into their husbands’ abductions, but by KGB rather than procuracy. Spouses of the missing opposition members addressed with a complaint Minsk procuracy, which had been investigating into the case of Gonchar and Krasovsky for more than three years and now halted them for no reason.

Investigation’s faults are explained by the women by the fact that the procuracy is chaired by a man, who is also the main suspect of all. They mean Viktor Sheiman, of course.

Deputy chair of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee attorney Garry Pogonailo mentioned another significant argument for that. The man renders juridical assistance to Zinaida Gonchar and Irina Krasovskaya in their attempts to find justice.

“We have a pretty upsetting picture. They committed a crime against a man (Gonchar), who had previously occupied high post. He was liquidated in connection with his political activism, which is why it’s no longer an ordinary crime but terrorism, due to be dealt with by KGB, under the law,” – says the attorney.

Pogonailo assumes that Gonchar and Krasovsky’s disappearance case must be re-qualified into a “crime against humanity” – article 128 of the Penal code. The punishment, envisaged by the article is also more serious – lifelong imprisonment.