Basharymau's girlfriend: "I spent a night in KGB prison"

Euroradio keeps investigating the details of the notorious case.

“I got acquainted with Syarhei more than a year ago. He lets flats to people for several days. As far as I know, he has four flats. We met thanks to our mutual friends", - Iryna describes her relations with Basharymau.

He is one of the most famous Minsk realtors on the Internet now. It is because of "the teddy bear landing". Basharymau let a flat to the director of the Swedish Studio Total Per Cromwell in May. He had been going to let it again on July 3. However, Per Cromwell did not come and informed about his refusal  to rent the flat in Karl Marx Street by sms. It was a good reason for Belarusian KGB to accuse Syarhei Basharymau of assistance in a case of illegal crossing of the border and to jail him. Syarhei's girlfriend Iryna was also arrested.

“They came to arrest me on the evening of July 6. They said that they were KGB members. Syarhei was arrested at the same time, he had left for work... They told me that I had to go with them to give explanations. There were no alternatives. They just brought me to a cell. They interrogated me on July 6 and the following day", - Iryna described her detention calmly as if it were an interesting adventure. But she confessed that it was not cool to be locked up in a narrow cell in KGB prison.

Syarhei Basharymau

They let her off the following day and said: "You are lucky to be a girl". Iryna did not find her notebook when she got back home. Everything had been taken away by KGB members during her interrogation.

Iryna is not allowed to inform anyone about her conversations with KGB members. The girl says that she had been hoping to see Syarhei after 3 days of arrest and then - after 10 days. But she had hoped in vain. When she read that photographer Surapin had also been detained - she decided to inform journalists about her boyfriend.

“His job is letting flats to people. I do not even know who rented flats from him. I do not know whether there were any foreigners... KGB member told me: "You are his girlfriend, you must know it". But I did not know anything at all. I even got to know about the Swedish plane and the teddy bears after the detention. It is absurd", - says Iryna.

Syarhei Basharymau was charged after 10 days of arrest. He is accused of assisting a group of people to cross the border illegally. The realtor is facing from 3 to 7 years of imprisonment for it. Iryna and Syarhei's mother are doing everything to release him now. They are going to hire their own lawyer because the state lawyer can only say "calm down, everything will be okay" and that's it. Syarhei received clothes and food twice in the last 14 days. They do not allow bringing parcels more often.

Iryna is determined to release her boyfriend. "This is absurd, just absurd", - she keeps saying.