Igor Chernenko, chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department on cyber crime, announced that a criminal investigation on the case had been started.
On January 10, since 12.00 till 19.00, Belarusian internet users had difficulties while trying to access Beloruskij partizan, Charter 97, radio Freedom, ucpb.org and livejournal.com sites
Maria Stoliarova from Beltelecom department on information and public relations stated: "We have no relations to the problems with access to some independent web sites". She explained that these sites might had problems with providers and hosting. She argued that Beltelecom could not "narrow" internet channels for the web sites hosted at other servers (not at Beltelecom ones).
Meanwhile independent resources owners maintain that Beltelecom used shaping techniques because of the private entrepreneurs protest meeting which took place in Minsk on January 10, since 12.00.
