Former KGB Officer Khralovich, Who Leaked Eismant’s Phone Calls, Receives Additional Year In Prison

Former KGB Lieutenant Colonel Aliaksei Khralovich, who was convicted of treason, has received an additional year in prison under Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the administration of a correctional facility). According to the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the criminal case was recently heard in Mahiliou.

Khralovich was detained in March 2021. A year later, he was sentenced to 10 years in a high-security penal colony and fined 500 basic units on charges of treason.

Khralovich appeared in the ONT documentary “KGB Special Operation ‘Mankurts’”. It reported that he had handed recordings of phone conversations involving Lukashenka’s press secretary Natallia Eismant to administrators of Stsiapan Putsila‘s Telegram channel. In the recordings, Eismant discussed the circumstances surrounding the death of Raman Bandarenka. The documentary claimed that the recorded conversations had allegedly been staged, but Khralovich was unaware of this.