MINSK. Nov 28 (Interfax) - Over 100 people have been designated as suspects in the Belarusian Coordination Council case, the Belarusian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.
"Over 100 people have been designated as suspects in the Coordination Council case," the committee said.
According to investigators, the leaders of radical cells operating in the Belarusian territory united into the so-called Coordination Council in 2020 and took active efforts to seize power and promote the idea of a forcible change of the constitutional system. They used various kinds of pseudo-bodies and formations in their activity.
The committee noted that one of such actors had decided to use the right to return to Belarus via the respective commission.
Having arrived in the Belarusian territory, this person volunteered to provide an expanded list of participants in the Coordination Council operations, which includes over 100 people, some of them previously unknown to law enforcement authorities, the committee said.
The committee designated such people as suspects. It is conducting investigative and operative procedures, including searches, to obtain evidence of the illegal actions together with the Interior Ministry.
Assets and real estate of the suspects in the Belarusian territory are being identified for freezing purposes.
"Based on the evidence, the launch of a special procedure will be considered to implement the principle of unavoidable punishment and compensation for the damage done by criminal actions," the committee said.