24 August, Vitebsk /Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. A criminal case against an expert who failed to conduct fingerprinting of one of the defendants in the Minsk metro explosion has been transferred to the Vitebsk Regional Court. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Vitebsk Region, Alexander Sidorovich. The investigation department of the Prosecutor's Office of the Vitebsk Region has completed the investigation of a criminal case charging an employee of the internal affairs bodies of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee with committing a crime under Article 428 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus "Negligence". This case is directly related to the case initiated by the Prosecutor General's Office under Article 289 "Terrorism" of the Criminal Code of Belarus. During the preliminary investigation, it was established that on January 20, 2009, at the city military commissariat, an expert of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee failed to take measures to conduct fingerprinting of a conscript who was subject to mandatory state fingerprinting as a person liable for military service. Trusting the young man's word, the expert submitted a certificate to the conscript's personal file stating that he had previously undergone fingerprinting and there was no need for it to be repeated. At the same time, the law enforcement officer did not verify the truthfulness of the conscript's statement. Thus, the expert exempted him from fingerprinting, and information about him was not entered into the fingerprint database. The young man was not checked for involvement in the explosion in Minsk on July 4, 2008, which allowed him to subsequently commit a crime at the metro station in Minsk. Answering the question why the data indicated in the certificate was not verified by the expert, the Deputy Prosecutor stated that the mechanism for such verifications had not been properly established to date. "If there is a certificate, it is assumed that the official has carried out the verification," he added.