The criminal case of an expert who failed to conduct fingerprinting of one of the defendants in the Minsk metro explosion has been sent to court

August 24, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. A criminal case against an expert who failed to conduct fingerprinting of one of the defendants in the Minsk metro explosion has been transferred to the Vitebsk Regional Court. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Vitebsk Region, Alexander Sidorovich.

The Investigative Department of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office has completed the investigation of a criminal case accusing an employee of the internal affairs bodies of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee of committing a crime under Article 428 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus "Negligence". This case is directly related to the case initiated by the Prosecutor General's Office under Article 289 "Terrorism" of the Criminal Code of Belarus.

During the preliminary investigation, it was established that on January 20, 2009, at the city military commissariat, an expert of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee failed to take measures to conduct fingerprinting of a conscript who was subject to mandatory state fingerprinting as a person liable for military service. Believing the young man's word, the expert submitted a certificate to the conscript's personal file stating that he had previously undergone fingerprinting and there was no need to repeat it. At the same time, the law enforcement officer did not verify the truthfulness of the conscript's statement. Thus, the expert exempted him from fingerprinting, and information about him was not included in the fingerprint database. The young man was not checked for involvement in the explosion in Minsk on July 4, 2008, which allowed him to subsequently commit a crime at the metro station in Minsk.

Answering the question why the data indicated in the certificate was not verified by the expert, the Deputy Prosecutor stated that the mechanism for such checks had not been properly prescribed to date. "If there is a certificate, it is assumed that the official has conducted a check," he added.

The explosion at the Oktyabrskaya metro station in the Minsk metro occurred at 17:58 on April 11, 2011. As a result of the terrorist attack, 11 people died on the spot, and 4 died in hospitals. A criminal case was initiated based on the explosion under Art. 289 "Terrorism" of the Criminal Code of Belarus. Two young men, both born in 1986, natives of Vitebsk, are charged in this case. One of them is also charged under Part 3 of Art. 295 "Illegal actions concerning firearms, ammunition and explosives" of the Criminal Code. Moreover, one of the defendants is accused of carrying out explosions on September 14 and 22, 2005, in Vitebsk and on the night of July 3-4, 2008, in Minsk. The criminal case regarding the explosion in the Minsk metro has been sent to the Supreme Court. -0-