Mikalai Ulasevich demands that Ashmiany district customs office to returned his belongings and paid a compensation
The civil activist from the Astravets
district Mikalai Ulasevich filed a counter-claim against the Ashmiany
District Customs Office to the Ashmiany District Court.
Earlier
the customs office applied to the court with the request to find the
belongings which had been confiscated from Mr. Ulasevich as noone's
property. The incident took place on 10 April 2011 at the border
crossing point Katlouka. Ulasevich's car was detained and searched
for three hours. As a result a Dictaphone, three DVDs, 18 "Fukushima"
stickers, two training aids "Chernobyl lessons" and an
alternative report about the problem of the NPP construction in
Belarus were confiscated from the activist. His subsequent appeals to
the Ashmiany custom's with the request to return his belongings were
ignored.
According to Mr. Ulasevich, the confiscated things
were detained allegedly to hold a criminalistic examination by the
Hrodna Region KGB Department, the purposes of which weren't explained
to him. The examination was appointed on the 38th day after the
confiscation. Instead of receiving an official answer to his appeal,
Mr. Ulasevich received an answer from the ideological department of
the Hrodna Region Executive Committee on a totally different
matter.
At present Mikalai Ulasevich asks the court to exact
800,000 rubles from the Ashmiany customs office (the cost of the
Dictaphone), and also exact 9 million rubles as a compensation for
the moral damages and transfer this sum to the account of the
organization which is building a church in the town of Varniany.