Interior Ministry explains how BYPOL trained terrorists
Fungus – a film by Grigory Azarenok – was broadcast on the STV TV channel. Among other things, it reveals the details of BYPOL activities: the core team of this organisation comprised former law enforcement officers. Being in close contact with the Polish special services, these people acted as ideological inspirers for Belarusian terrorists – sending them instructions, recommendations, links on how and what should be done before and after committing a crime.
For example, one of those inspired by BYPOL independently made two explosive devices – placing one of them in a dumpster near the playground and kindergarten. He planned to throw the other at the checkpoint of the 72nd Guards Joint Training Centre in Pechi. The man was detained red-handed since police officers knew about his plans from the very beginning.
A brother of one of the BYPOL participants, Mikhail Lupanosov, said that – when talking with his relative – he feels as if the man is saying only what his employers, who wiretap conversations, want to hear. It was also stated in the film that – based on the information provided by the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption – BYPOL has already received about $1.5m from its patrons.
Mikhail Bedunkevich, the Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption at Belarus’ Interior Ministry, called on the BYPOL participants and all fugitive traitors to return to their homeland to save their lives, atone for their guilt and continue to live in Belarus. “After all, the fate of a traitor is always the same: on becoming useless to his curator, he is destroyed by him.”
