Russian FSB Eliminates Terrorist in Grodno, Minsk Provides Data

Minsk, March 21 – On Tuesday, STV reported that Belarusian law enforcement officers had handed over the fingerprint data of the terrorist who was eliminated in Grodno to the Russian Federal Security Service to help establish his true identity.

The KGB of Belarus earlier reported that during the implementation of special measures to suppress the activities of persons who entered the territory of the republic with the aim of a terrorist attack, a foreign citizen was liquidated in Grodno on March 19, who, using automatic weapons and detonating live bombs, provided armed resistance to the security forces. On Tuesday, the Belarusian 1 TV channel reported that the Belarusian security forces had received operational information about the planned arrival of an opponent to the Belarusian authorities from Poland, and that the Russian passport found in the liquidated criminal was forged. Law enforcement officers of Belarus determine the true identity and citizenship, and also look for accomplices for the criminal. A case was opened about the fact of preparing a terrorist attack.

The TV channel said: “There are no traces of the criminal in the Belarusian databases. The results of fingerprinting have already been handed over to colleagues from the Russian Federal Security Service.”

Earlier, the Belarusian media reported that a fake Russian passport was found with the criminal in the name of Alexei Nikolayevich Lomakin, born in 1981. “The document once belonged to a person with such a surname, but the name Vladimir. However, in 2012, the passport was lost, it was put on the wanted list and declared invalid. And what was found on the terrorist in Grodno showed clear signs of forgery, ”emphasized STV.

Alexander Muzyko, deputy head of the Main Department for Forensic Examinations of the Central Office of the State Commission for Forensic Examinations of Belarus, told the TV channel that “in the course of the expert study, it was established that his passport ( ) form was prepared by an enterprise that produces products of this kind. “In other words, this form is original. At the same time, changes were made to this passport, namely: the page of the passport, which contains the personal data of its owner, was changed. New personal data was applied to a sheet of paper. The lamination layer was peeled off from the passport sheet Traveling, pasting a new passport paper and then the lamination layer was pasted again. During the study, it was found that this paper was made using computer technology and printed on a printer device.