Case of attempted coup d'etat - Zenkovich tells about President assassination plan to court

8 августа 2022

Today is the seventh day of the court hearing in the case of an attempted coup d'etat. There are five defendants on the bench:  Grigory Kostusev, Alexander Feduta, Yury Zenkovich, as well as Denis Kravchuk and Olga Golubovich. Today, Zenkovich has fully pleaded guilty to all charges. He stated that the idea of the change of power belonged to him, he does not dispute his role as the organizer of the conspiracy. The defendant indicated a violent seizure of power as the conspiracy objective. Deniss Hoffman, a citizen of Ukraine and Germany, also participated in the conspiracy.  Avtukhovich was to be the executor. The prosecutor read out an extract from the plan "Silence" where it was planned to shoot the President's car with a grenade launcher "Mukha". 

During the interrogation by the prosecutor, Yury Zenkovich confessed that there could be civilian casualties after a possible coup d'etat. As he claims, Igor Makar and Olga Karach were among the conspirators. He also confirmed that it was expected that the U.S. MIC would give them $10 million to stage a military coup in the country. It became known that he was the only one of the accused, who agreed to make a deal with the investigation. 

According to the charges, Zenkovich arrived in Belarus on 5 August 2020 under the guise of a law-abiding citizen in order to vote in the presidential election, but in fact with the aim of changing the country's power by force.