Son of Siarhei Bulba, who collects money in Poland, says Belarusian police planted drugs on him
Kanstantsin Kalinouski continues to talk about some kind of political persecution, but provides no evidence for it.
Kanstantsin Kalinouski
Kanstantsin Kalinouski, son of Siarhei Bulba, has clarified his life story. He admitted in an interview with "Radio Svaboda" that he actually has two criminal convictions for drugs.
As a reminder, "Nasha Niva" wrote about how the 34-year-old Belarusian is collecting money in Poland, posing as a political refugee.
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Kanstantsin Kalinouski admitted that in the early 2010s he was indeed convicted for drugs. However, he claims that it was about marijuana, not the more serious synthetic drug Alpha-PVP, which is mentioned in his sentence.
Kalinouski's account of his detention for drugs in May 2021 is very confused.
Firstly, he says he doesn't remember exactly when it was, either in 2020 or 2021.
Secondly, he assures that police officers planted the drugs on him.
According to Kalinouski, he spent three months in the pre-trial detention center in Zhodzina and received four years of "chemistry with direction" for these drugs.
It's noteworthy that in his first interview with "Svaboda," the story was described quite differently.
"In August 2020, Kanstantsin says, he participated in protests after the presidential elections. According to him, he was detained and spent three months in the pre-trial detention center," the text stated.
There is also confusion with the date of his departure from Belarus. Initially, Kalinouski thought it happened either at the end of 2020 or at the beginning of 2021. When it turned out that, according to documents, he was detained in May 2021, he suggested that he left Belarus after being released from the pre-trial detention center — meaning sometime in August-September 2021.
Kalinouski says he underwent a polygraph in Ukraine.
"A week later there was a call. The caller introduced himself as an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine and said that I temporarily needed to leave Ukraine," he told "Svaboda." Kalinouski tried to return to Ukraine to join as a volunteer, but eventually received an entry ban until October 25, 2025.
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