BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

31/03/2008

Belarusian Interior Minister Says Police Arrested Opposition's 'Cashier'

Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumau said on March 28 that during the crackdown on an attempt to stage a demonstration in central Minsk on March 25, police detained a "cashier" for the opposition, Belapan reported. Navumau said that police detained a woman affiliated with an opposition party in whose bag 8 million rubles ($3,726) in 100,000-ruble wads of notes was found. "She explained that she wanted to buy something the following day, but she could not explain why bills were packed up in wads totaling 100,000 rubles each," Navumau said. "We are 100 percent sure that this money was to have been paid to those people who participated in clashes with police," he said. Navumau did not provide the woman's personal details. "All fairy tales about the funding of street demonstrations staged by the opposition have never been corroborated by photo or video materials, not even once," the leader of the opposition United Civic Party, Anatol Lyabedzka, told Belapan. Lyabedzka suggested that the incident might have been orchestrated by the KGB, which "printed the money and threw out someone with it." AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2008/03/3-cee/cee-310308.asp

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