Former head of the Air Intelligence Service. Convicted by the Criminal Division of the Vitebsk Regional Court under Article 356 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus – treason. The case was heard behind closed doors from March 28 to May 15, 2023. Valery's exact sentence is unknown, but former political prisoners have reported it to be more than seven years.
In December 2022, the Belarus 1 television channel aired a documentary about the KGB's counterintelligence service, featuring Belarusians and citizens of other countries accused of working for foreign intelligence agencies. Valery Romanovsky was described in the film as a "former head of the air reconnaissance service." The Belarus 1 report claims that during his service, a relative from Lithuania "introduced" the suspect to agents of the country's State Security Department. Romanovsky photographed official documents for them, and once, according to the film, passed on information about the construction of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant to the intelligence services.
