 Lukashenko asserted that the four had been plotting a "coup d'état" and had abducted Zavadsky to implicate the president.On 14 March 2002, Minsk Regional Court convicted four men of five murders, plus the kidnapping of Dmitry Zavadsky.Two of the men, Valery Ignatovich and Maxim Malik, were former members of the elite Belarusian police unit Almaz.