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The killings were not carried out in Germany, but explosives and poisons were planned. And the KGB commander was so incompetent that he managed to secretly record the meeting he led.
The Belarusian KGB also planned the murder of the Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet. He was killed in 2016 after his car exploded in Ukraine.
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In Germany, there are three goals
“The president is looking forward to these operations,” then-KGB commander Vadim Zaitsev said in his office in Minsk on April 11, 2012.
This conversation was secretly recorded and later broadcast to EUobserver.
Zaitsev addressed officials from the KGB Alpha Group, an elite counterterrorism unit.
The head of the KGB spoke of the murder of three Belarusians living in Germany: former Belarus prison director Oleg Alkayev, former Colonel Vladimir Borodach and former anti-corruption officer Vyacheslav Dudkin.
According to V. Zaitsev, Lukashenko has allocated 1.2 million for operations. and wanted to “see results”.
“It is important that no one thinks of the KGB,” Zaitsev was quoted as saying by EUobserver.
“It is clear how we can drown or shoot someone. Of course. But how to start an explosion, how to start arson and leave no trace, murder and the like, is not clear, “said the KGB commander.
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KGB officials also discussed the murder of Sheremet, who was living in Russia at the time.
“We have to work for Sheremet, which is very uncomfortable,” Zaitsev said according to EUobserver.
Zaitsev wanted Sheremet’s murder to send a message to the public.
“We will help the explosive and the like, and this dressed rat will split into pieces: legs on one side, arms on the other.” If everything seems natural reasons, people’s thoughts will affect it differently, “said V. Zaitsev.
According to an internal KGB report received by Euobserver, Sheremet was observed in Moscow.
One of Zaitsev’s ideas was to find a “professional or auto mechanic who would do it in such a way that no expert dressed in Germany would realize that the car had been intentionally damaged and thus went off the road” .
However, the meeting warned that the blast could hurt those around.
“Another interesting suggestion … Vitebsk has a professor, a toxicology expert who has a lot of knowledge about natural and man-made poisons,” said an anonymous KGB official.
“There is a self-taught chemist who says he can make any kind of chemical. It can even tell you the height and weight of a person and it can manufacture (chemicals) for anyone, “said another anonymous KGB official.
“Go find that person, then get everything ready,” Zaitsev said.
Determined to testify
The recording and report of the meeting were first received by Belarusian opposition activist Igor Makar. He previously served in the Almaz Special Counter-Terrorism Unit. Makar, who is currently in hiding in the EU, said he was determined to testify that the audio recording was authentic.
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Makar said he received the sound recording in 2012, then shared it with an American diplomat in the European Union, whom he declined to name. In this way, he hoped to protect his friend O. Alkayev, who was on the target list.
Eight years later, he decided to broadcast to the media a history of solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Belarus who had survived four months of “beatings, torture and rape.”
Another Belarusian source, who did not want to be identified, told EUobserver that, if necessary, he would testify in court that the meeting had taken place, that Zaitsev had attended and that the recording was authentic, with Zaitsev’s voice.
Alkayev confirmed I. Makar’s statements.
Shortly after Makar passed the file on to US diplomats, German officials warned Alkayev that he was in danger and was granted protection. This is confirmed by a letter sent by the German police to Alkayev in May 2012, which he shared with EUobserver.
“The police said that they could guarantee my safety in Germany, but they advised me not to leave the country,” Alkayev said.
The killings did not take place in Germany and Zaitsev left office in November 2012.
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