Latuška reports criminal case against his daughter

January 29, BPN. A criminal case was opened against Jana Latuška, the 27-year-old daughter of the Belarusian opposition politician and the head of the National Anti-Crisis Management Paviel Latuška. The politician announced this in the evening of January 28 via his Instagram account.

The article of the Criminal Code under which the case was initiated remains unknown.

“Employees of the Financial Investigations Department of the State Control Committee reached out in search of my daughter, saying that a criminal case has been opened against her. They did not say what the charges were and on what basis the case was opened,” Latuška said. “Later we found out that my daughter’s apartment has been seized. It is my parents’ apartment that they acquired back in the Soviet times.”

Commenting on the criminal case against his daughter, the politician compared the practice of the current Belarusian authorities to the year 1937 in the USSR: “This is pure Stalinism happening in our country.” At the same time, he stressed that such actions of the authorities “did not demotivate” him.

Previously, criminal cases were opened against Latuška, now living abroad, under six articles: Article 361-1 of the Criminal Code (creation of an extremist group), 357 (conspiracy to seize power), 361 (calls to overthrow or change the constitutional order), 289 (act of terrorism), 361¹ (establishment of an extremist formation), 357 (conspiracy to seize power), 361 (calls for the overthrow or change of the constitutional order), 289 (act of terrorism), 382 (unauthorized appropriation of rank or power) and 426 (abuse of power or official authority).