The union of former Belarusian law enforcers ByPol published on YouTube in the investigation, which accused the SWAT fighters of murdering a resident of Minsk Roman Bondarenko, who was killed during the arrest in November of last year.
According to ByPol, the first to use physical violence instructor special training SWAT Dmitry Shakuta. Then the senior warrant officer Yevgeny Bondarenko Timanovsky before loading into the van deliberately hit his head on the ground.
The detainee was in the car more than 20 minutes, after which it was transferred in critical condition riot police, who decided that the man was drunk. Accordingly, the circle of suspects in the death of a protester should be included senior SWAT team captain Sergei Sarman driver Sergey Antyufeev, warrant Buikevich Oleg and Roman Savenko, according to the investigation.
ByPol published an audio recording a telephone conversation, which was allegedly the commander of the Minsk riot police Dmitry Balaba says head of the Moscow police Mikhail fungi:
“Our fingers did not touch it.”
However, the published records of alleged conversations Balabai and riot police platoon commander Ruslan Kuleshov. They imply that Kuleshov on orders Balabai gave false testimony that his fighters allegedly found Bondarenko at the bus stop.
September 17 Belarusian Prosecutor General’s Office reported that the investigation into the murder Bondarenko suspended: law enforcement agencies “failed” to find involved in his death
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31-year-old Roman Bondarenko died November 12, 2020 in the hospital, where he was hospitalized with multiple injuries of the central police station. Residents of a house in Minsk told that prior to it came into the yard by unknown people in masks and started filming the protest symbols. Bondarenko together with other residents came to ask what was happening. The masked man pushed him so that the man hit his head on the ground. Then Bondarenko “professionally arrested” and taken away.