Editorial office of regional newspaper «Hantsavitski chas» searched

Pho­to: Piotr Huza­yeus­ki, edi­tor-in-chief of Hantsavichy chas and the Per­shy rehiy­on online media

he search of the Hantsavichy Chas edi­to­r­i­al office was car­ried out by offi­cers of the Finan­cial Inves­ti­ga­tions Depart­ment of the State Con­trol Com­mit­tee.

The secu­ri­ty forces were pri­mar­i­ly inter­est­ed in finance and account­ing doc­u­ments, and all com­put­ers and phones were seized as a result of the search. Lat­er in the evening it became known that the news­pa­per’s edi­tor-in-chief Piotr Huza­yeus­ki was at home, but had his devices seized.

The Hantsav­it­s­ki chas news­pa­per has been pub­lished for 19 years. It is reg­is­tered by the Min­istry of Infor­ma­tion and belongs to the Media-Hantsavichy com­pa­ny, which also found­ed the Per­shy rehiy­on online media. The lat­ter is a pri­vate media that works in sev­er­al cities in the Brest region: Ivat­se­vichy, Biaroza, Pin­sk, Hantsavichy, Drahichyn.