The founder of the "Platform Innovation" Michael Zhamchuzhny in July 2015 was convicted of the Viciebsk regional court to 6 years imprisonment in a penal colony. October 23 the judicial board on criminal cases of the Supreme Court considered an appeal and appointed Zhemchuzhny more severe punishment – six and a half years in prison.
He was found guilty of committing crimes under Art. 376 (parts 1 and 2), part 5 of Art. 16, Art. 375 (part 1) and Art. 431 (parts 1 and 2): inciting the intentional disclosure of information constituting an official secret; illegal purchase and sale of special technical means intended for secret information, including – again; bribery and bribery again.
The details of the criminal case against Mikhail Zhamchuzhny have been completely closed at the stage of investigation, the lawyer refused to contact, citing the subscription nondisclosure of information. The trial was held behind closed doors.
This opaque reality, and why Michael Zhamchuzhny recognized as a political prisoner, says human rights activist Tatyana Ravyaka:
Shady transaction
– The case for a long time for us was quite unclear. About Michael Zhamchuzhny, we learned only after his arrest – human rights activist said. – Our colleagues in Viciebsk also knew not to say anything definite about what is involved in the arrest, they could not. I'm almost a year corresponded with Michael, but the letters had limited information, and often it was absolutely unclear what the person wrote.
Of course, the arrest of the founder of the human rights organization immediately attracted our attention, and we have taken many steps to get at least some information on his case. For a long time, these measures did not bring success, and only the fact of the arrest of Mikhail Zhamchuzhny are insufficient grounds to say at once that the person is prosecuted for human rights activities. Still, we need to know what really happened.
We proceed from the assumption that the mere nature of the political opposition or human rights activities can not be some stable base to refer the person to a political prisoner, even in the case of deprivation of liberty. While the increased interest in this case.
It is not important whether the person is an opposition politician, a human rights activist, journalist or a public person, and that what he is accused of the act, what were the actions of the authorities in this case and what were the real motives.
The trial of Mikhail Zhamchuzhnyy also added clarity, because it was closed to the nature. I only managed to get on the announcement of the operative part in the Supreme Court for the first time and saw Michael. We can say – met. And after a while we got him three documents that shed some light on his case. The documents came from the colonies in Navasady, where is serving a sentence Zhamchuzhny. I do not know how they missed, but the papers have passed through the prison censorship and were handed over to us.
Thus, our vision of "Zhamchuzhny of the case" is based precisely on these documents. Of course, they do not provide a complete understanding, but build a more or less clear picture.
Trap
– According to the documents, the Michael Zhamchuzhny was in the development of so-called power structures (in legal language this is called "participation in the extended investigative experiment") on charges of spying for a foreign country. I was discharged from the sentencing key dates and loomed following the chronology of events.
In 2007, the scholar Michael Zhamchuzhny was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for his article "Stealing through abuse of office." He was released in April 2012. And in August the same year, he stole some three plasma systems. A man wrote a statement to the police. During the investigation between the Zhamchuzhny and the police officers who investigated the case of theft, tying certain contacts. As recorded in a sentence with the words of the officer, while talking on the fact of embezzlement of Zhamchuzhny has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with what is happening in the country, about the meeting December 19, 2010, drew attention at the same time on the arbitrariness of the police, he said about the innocent victims of convicted They are calling them victims of the regime, and that is going to deal with such phenomena in the country. Like, I come from Poland with the aim of recruiting law enforcement personnel and offered to cooperate with him. Information needed allegedly to transfer its "serious people" abroad, which supposedly can change the situation in the country. For this information, according to the materials of the case, Michael offered money to a police officer, as well as in the case of persecution by the KGB promised him and his family every assistance, including – departure through diplomatic channels abroad.
In short, according voiced in court, Michael on the fifth day of our acquaintance with the police officer suggested that he direct recruitment. Honestly, I find it difficult even to imagine such. You also need to remember that Michael just released from prison, was isolated last 5 years, and here it turns out that a couple of months, he had time even to establish contacts with foreign intelligence services, who trust him to establish recruitment. As for me, this is nonsense, but for the court – a plausible version of what was the secret services to develop an entire lengthy operation.
Also note what information asked for Zhamchuzhny: illegal activities of police officers, about torture and prison conditions, corruption in law enforcement. Why foreign intelligence service would have such information, and how it can help "change the situation in the country" from abroad? But security officials that gave the opportunity to expand the so-called "investigative experiment" in order to "curb illegal activities Zhamchuzhny," which they performed "in the interests of a foreign country to the detriment of the national security of the Republic of Belarus."
I think Zhamchuzhny has attracted the attention of a police officer for his critical statements about the illegal actions of law enforcement and the need to deal with it, "Poland", where in the summer for a few days, he really went. Policeman all tied into one and wrote a report to his superiors, who then went into the development of the KGB.
In general, while in the Viciebsk KGB attacked what is called a "spy." Just at that time, in November 2012, he was arrested Andrew Gaidukov on charges of treason, and then there was a new suspicion of having committed a serious crime ...
If we go back to the chronology of events, it turns out that some time to offer Zhamchuzhny police officer does not respond. The reason for this "course of action due to operational-search activities". But up to a point.
The purpose of the "experiment" – "Platform"?
– This point probably was that Michael Zhamchuzhny became the founder of a human rights institution "Platform Innovation". At the beginning of 2013 (after nearly six months after the first contact with a policeman) agreed with him to cooperate. And then I see no direct link to the person of the Zhamchuzhny and a human rights institution. In December 2012 he became its founder, and almost immediately the police officer agreed to the so-called recruitment.
According to the case materials, operative-search activities consisted of four stages: "recruitment", "misinformation", "familiarity with the curator," and again "misinformation." At every meeting with a Zhamchuzhny police officer he walked with recording devices that were given to him by the KGB. All documents that have been passed Zhamchuzhny, developed by KGB officers. It is called the "lead": auditioned was video surveillance, the information was recorded. In general, the court was presented to 30 discs with audio recordings.
The first "information" Zhemchuzhny was transferred in May 2013. And further on the case files seen that already in the summer of 2013 deals with the organization of a meeting with the director of the "Platform" Andrei Bondarenko has repeatedly drawn attention to the materials that are transmitted, need not Zhamchuzhny, and Bondarenko. Therefore, it seems to me that the operation was aimed at control of the whole organization.
During the period from May 2013 to January 2014, according to documents recorded 5 cases of transfer of "information" Zhamchuzhny, 4 cases of this information the police officer got the money. What kind of information? Excited criminal cases against officials, a summary of the 2012 and 2013 incidents involving law enforcement officials, spetsdonesenie upon the sudden death of a citizen Kudelko IVS ATC Viciebsk Regional Executive Committee, Order of the Ministry of Interior "On certain aspects of personnel work in the Interior Ministry."
If we accept the theory that Zhamchuzhny did use illegal methods to obtain information, bribed for it, it is necessary to evaluate the actions of the police, and – the provocateur, and KGB officers. They do not prevent, but rather to incite such actions, resulting in a situation Michael Zhamchuzhny each time more deteriorated as actions to acquire a second character.
Over time, more and more questions arise about the activities of the "Platform" and Bondarenko. Andrew, as follows from the case in February 2014 met with Zhamchuzhny and a police officer, who was "the source" of information. Talk again he held under the control of the KGB and recorded. Bondarenko explained the aims and objectives of the "Platform": prisoners, torture, abuse of authority by police officers; civilian control of (social) affecting mismanagement svoyachnichestvo, corruption. At the time of this meeting it has conducted business on the episode Bondarenko beating Yavorsky, in March there was a conflict with his neighbors, and Bondarenko was accused of hooliganism and later convicted. But the materials that we have, we can assume that Andrew was also in the above development. And if it did not happen that happened to him, then it is possible that we could see a high-profile case of the "spy" the human rights organization. Either against Bondarenko could be charged similar charges Zhemchuzhny.
Why Zhamchuzhny recognized political prisoners?
– Once we received the documents, we had two expert meetings in which we analyzed the situation – adds a human rights activist. – Is the information that collected Zhamchuzhny, the public interest? Was it possible to get it otherwise legally without a bribe? For what purposes this information is extracted? It is clear that bribery and the establishment of this kind of "contacts" with operatives are not human rights practices. These actions are criminalized throughout the world, as well as we noted in a statement adopted on the basis of expert meetings with the heads of leading Belarusian human rights organizations.
But we could not not pay attention to the fact that this situation is a result of the development of a special intelligence operations. There was a definite plot, incitement to illegal actions. And when we recognized a political prisoner Michael Zhamchuzhny, it proceeded from the fact that there was a political motive: the motive of a state body (the KGB) to strengthen its significance, which developed a scheme that killed Michael Zhamchuzhny.
Michael is now in prison in Navasady, his lawyer is preparing a supervisory appeal. We voiced our position on the case of Zhamchuzhny and hope that the court will take into account the disclosure of the illegal schemes that were used against him and the security services have led to a conviction. We demand a fair and open trial, in which would be given a legal assessment of the actions not only of Michael Zhamchuzhny, but also public authorities, in particular – the KGB.
Case Zhamchuzhny, we have included in the list of the primary requirements of the authorities and expect that its consideration at the political level will affect positively on the fate of Michael.
About
Michael Zhamchuzhny was born in 1955 in Viciebsk. He worked at the Viciebsk Technological University. Associate Professor, Ph.D., author of several monographs and development.
The first in the country registered a homemade car on alternative fuel. The university headed the laboratory, which was engaged in the problems of the industrial production of hydrogen.
Surprisingly, scientists interested in the activities of the KGB. Against the head of the laboratory, a criminal case. Michael offered to cooperate with the KGB, to testify against his superiors. He rejected those proposals. In 2007, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison under Article 210 of the Criminal Code "Theft by abuse of authority."
After his release in 2012, Michael Zhamchuzhny decided to join the members of the "Platform", which collected information on the situation in places of detention. After the elimination of the "Platform" has agreed to become the founder of a new organization "Platform Innovation".
Michael Zhamchuzhny was arrested a week after the announcement of the sentence against the director of Private cultural and educational institution "Platform Innovation" Andrey Bondarenko.
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