State treason charges for Catholic priest

Interfax.by news agency reports the priest is charged with participation in a crime.



The priest allegedly passed cash and material assets to the man who is charged with spying against Belarus for a foreign intelligence.



KGB has reportedly promised Vatican's envoy in Minsk Claudio Gugerotti a personal meeting with Priest Lazar. The Belarus authorities said Lazar's case would not affect Belarus'relations with the Roman Catholic Church.



In late July Aliaksandr Lukashenka said a Belarus security service officer had been detained for working for foreign governments. According to the Belarus leader, the spy maintained contacts with his agents via a Catholic priest in Belarus.



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