August 22 at the Minsk City Court after months of hiatus continued the trial of the criminal case against the former deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Leonid Kovalev. Earlier, before the get a high position in the Vitebsk region, the former official head BRYU. What exactly he is accused - is not known. In general, the whole thing murky obscurity.

Thus, the state news agency BelTA reported that the trial was held "in open mode." Information about the alleged openness of the court, and some details of the case, taken from news feeds BelTA soon adopted many of the media in Belarus and abroad. However, in reality the process is hardly open none of the public, not only could not get into the court room, but was not even able to know in advance the day and hour when the trial should take place. The first people to suspect that the trial Leonid Kovalev returned, were journalists of "Nasha Niva". They called the Minsk city court to find out information about the case against another former official - he is accused of stealing over abuse of power - head of the secretariat of the National Assembly Gleb Byadrytskaga. At the same time, and asked about when will the continuation of the proceedings adbudetststsa Kovalev. But were very surprised to hear suddenly in response phrase: "No information" - on the same issue before the court staff always responded differently, something like "it is not recovered" or "judge on vacation."

According to the results of the call to the sector in criminal cases and administrative cases of Minsk city court reporters "Nasha Niva" published on the website edition article entitled "Trials of high-ranking officials want to spend in a silent? '. It took only two hours after the publication - and falls znyachevku BelTA own information on the trial of an officer.

Title state news: "Former Deputy Governor of the Vitebsk Region Leonid Kovalev tried in open mode." Text messages BelTA written as if the event is already covered earlier. However, no publications on detention Leonid Kovalev and start of his trial on the agency's Web site has been found.

From the report, BelTA has learned that the case is another defendant, someone Koala Grunar. Nothing is known about the last one, even then, a citizen of what country it is.

On the course of the hearing, which took place on 22 August, BelTA writes: "There was a question witnesses - former head of council culture of Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. The judge and the prosecutor questioned the witness in detail about the agreement Kovalev estimates for mass events ... The actors asked the former head of the council of culture on the details of cooperation between local authorities from Vitebsk firm that organizes the fireworks. According to the former Head of Department, the firm began working with the Executive Committee sometime in 2007 and was, in fact, a monopoly in the industry in the region. "

"For Human Rights"