Czech security services became interested in the visit of the President of the country Milos Zemrena in Tajikistan in 2014, shortly before the explosions in the Vrbetice, in which they accuse Russia. This is reported by Seznam Zprávy.
Investigators puzzled presence as part of the presidential delegation of the owner of the blown warehouse of Peter Bernatics-senior. According to the publication, the investigation connects the Bernatics and his son with promoting GRU agents in the penetration of warehouses in Vrbetice.
It is noted that in Dushanbe the suspect met with the General of the Tajik Borderway Radshabali Rachmonali. According to the investigation, a week before the first explosion of Bernatik received an email from Rachmonali with a request to skip into the territory of the warehouse of two “armament inspectors.”
Later it turned out that one of the stated inspectors was Anatoly Chepiga, whom the Czech authorities consider the organizer of explosions. It is emphasized that during a trip to the Czech Republic, he used Tajik documents addressed to Ruslan Tabarova.
The first explosion in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice occurred on October 16, 2014, and the second – December 3 of the same year, six days after the return of the Delegation of the Land in the Czech Republic.
The participation of Bernatics on a trip to Tajikistan was considered by the police back in 2015. Then the head of the presidential office, Radyslawa, Sanarge said that the participation of a businessman proposed the Union of Trade and Industry of the Czech Republic. He added that members of the delegation always have a personal program during a foreign visit.
Czech Republic accused Russian intelligence services in involvement in the explosions in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice in 2014. After that, Russia and the Czech Republic exchanged the expulsion of diplomats and decided to compose the number of employees of embassies. On April 29, the Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic Maria Beneshov said that Prague has several versions regarding what happened, in addition to the previously mentioned sabotage and chance.