Director general of Yunost hockey club arrested

• 14.11.2013, 7:41

The Investigatory Committee reported of the arrest of a former director general of the Yunost hockey club Eduard Zotau.

They information was made public yesterday – in a few days after the official was fired, Pressball reports.

It was not reported officially of the perturbations in the top-management of the six time country’s champions. Unofficially the reason for the dismissal is lingering with the commissioning of Chyzhouka-Arena, the construction of which was supervised by the hockey club as a managing organization.

Now Eduard Zotau (in the picture) has been arrested, and it has been officially confirmed by the press-secretary of the Investigatory Committee of the Republic of Belarus Paviel Traulka.

“Criminal charges have been brought against Mr. Zotau according to the part 9 of the article 2010 “Embezzlement by the means of power abuse”. The restriction measure selected for the time of the investigation is an arrest. This is all I can tell so far”.

The director general of the HC Yunost has been arrest for two months, however the term may be prolonged.