Andrei Lapatsin

Prisoner

Date of birth: 25 March 1977

Date of detention: 4 May 2023

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 361-2 of the Criminal Code — Financing the activities of an extremist group

Sentence: 4 years

Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony

Judge: Sviatlana Charapanava

Prison: Pre-trial detention center No. 1

Notes: Detention upon return to Belarus

Cases: Diversion in Mačuliščy, Donations

Andrei Lapatsin was detained in early May 2023, when he came to make a money transfer to his brother Maksim Lapatsin, who was detained under the Machulishchy case.

Andrei was detained under the same case of sabotage in Machulishchy and charged under Art. 289 of the Criminal Code (An act of terrorism).

 
Mail address: Pre-trial detention center No. 1. 223016, Navadvorski selsavet, 143/4, v. Pashkovichy, Minsk rajon, Minsk voblast

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