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Counting cost of subway bombing trial would be blasphemy, Supreme Court deputy chairperson says

 

The Supreme Court's deputy chairperson refused on Thursday to reveal the cost of last year's subway bombing trial.

"I believe that counting public funds spent on such cases would be a blasphemy to a certain degree," Valery Kalinkovich said.

"When we deal with very grave crimes, crimes that create a stir not only inside a certain country but in the entire world, we spent on the trial as much as was needed to get to the bottom of the case," he said.

As a result of the trial held between September 15 and November 30, Uladzislaw Kavalyow and Dzmitry Kanavalaw, both aged 25 at that time, were convicted of two 2005 bomb explosions in Vitsyebsk, a bomb attack during an open-air Independence Day concert in Minsk in July 2008 and the subway bombing in April 2011. The Supreme Court of Belarus found Mr. Kanavalaw guilty of committing the explosions and Mr. Kavalyow was found guilty of being accomplice to the crimes. Both were sentenced to death.

The young men were executed in mid-March. //BelaPAN