A former investigator will answer to the law for violating the secrecy of telephone conversations

October 30, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A criminal case has been initiated against a former investigator for violating the secrecy of telephone conversations, the Vitebsk regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus informed a BELTA correspondent. "The Vitebsk regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus has initiated a criminal case against two persons, including a former investigator of the Novopolotsk Department of the State Committee for Forensic Examination, who illegally violated the secrecy of telephone and other communications of citizens, which was expressed in the illegal obtaining and transfer to third parties of information about connections of a subscriber number used by a citizen without official necessity," informed the official representative of the Vitebsk regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Inna Gorbacheva. More detailed information is not disclosed in the interests of the investigation. The criminal case has been initiated under Part 2 of Article 203 of the Criminal Code of Belarus ("Violation of the secrecy of correspondence, telephone conversations, telegraph or other messages"), the sanctions of which provide for punishment up to imprisonment for a term of up to two years. -0-