Frontier guard who missed Swedish plane jailed for 2 years
He was considered guilty in breaking official obligations by failure to inform about the plane to the corresponding sub-divisions of the Defense Ministry.
"One
of the military courts" considered his case. The convict will spend two
years in a reinforced-security colony, informs BELTA.
Euroradio reminds, in the morning on July 4, 2012, the Swedish light-motor
plane "Jodel" crossed the Belarusian-Lithuanian border with no
obstacles, flew over Minsk, dropped teddy bears and got back. The pilots
informed about this flight themselves, and published a complete video-record of
the plane's being in the Belarusian air space. The Belarusian Defense Ministry
stated in response that no border violation had been recorded, and the video
materials were fake. They admitted the fact of the flight later, when
Alyaksandr Lukashenka said this.
The convicted military man was an officer-on-duty at the frontier guarding
point. He got the information about the incident from the duty detail but
didn't pass it further to the officer-on-duty of the frontier guard brigade.
