“I plead guilty to conspiracy to seize power by unconstitutional means,” he said after the charges were announced.
The case is being considered by the Minsk Regional Court.
Five people were brought as defendants: Yury Zenkovich, Alexander Feduta, Grigory Kostusev, Olga Golubovich and Denis Kravchuk.
On April 17, 2021, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced the arrest of a group planning an assassination attempt on him and his children.
The FSB of Russia said that a group of conspirators planned to carry out a coup d'état in Belarus.
Yury Zenkovich, who has dual citizenship (US and Belarus), and Alexander Feduta, a citizen of Belarus, were detained.