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CP accounts frozen: 13 coup plotters charged: KGB board dissolved

Soviet govt dismissed
MOSCOW, Aug 28 : In major developments In strife-torn Soviet Union, the federal Sovernmcnt has been ismissed, 13 coup plotters have been charged with treason, the Communist Party accounts frozen and the KGB ruling board has been dissolved.
report Reuter and AP.
The Soviet parliament formally dismissed the government today, with deputies overwhelmingly approving a no-confidence motion because of ministers' involvement In last week’s aborUve coup.
The Supreme Soviet, debat-
ing the aftermath of the coup for the third day, voted 402 to 16 to deny the government its confidence after President Mikhail Gorbachev said he had no trust tn his ministers.
Before the vote, Gorbachev told the chamber bluntly from the podium: "I cannot trust
this cabinet That Is that."
According to Soviet legislation, passage of such a confidence vote is tantamount to dismissing the government.
The Supreme Soviet had earlier passed a motion formally dismissing Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, a
member of the eight-man Emergency Committee which led the unsuccessful bid to unseat Gorbachev.
Accounts of a cabinet meeting on Monday last week, the day the coup was launched, showed that most ministers either supported the coup or took no actioh against it.
Meanwhile Thirteen plotters of last week's coup, including the seven surviving members of the Emergency Committee were charged Wednesday with high treason, the Russian prosecutor s office said.
If convicted, they could receive the death penalty.
Russian Prostecutor Valentin Stepanenkov also told the Tass news agency he would question Anatoly Lukyanov, the ousted speaker of the national legislature, to determine whether he was involved in the coup against Soviet President Gorbachev.
Charged were the seven surviving members of the selfproclaimed State Committee for the State of Emergency: Vice President Gennady Yanayev; Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov; KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov; Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov; Oleg Baklanov deputy chief of State Defense Committee; Alexander Tizyakov, president of Association of Soviet State Enterprise*, and industrial. Construction. Transport and Communications Facilities; and Vastly Starodubtsev, chairman of Soviet Farmers’ Union.
The eighth committee member, Interior Minister Boris Pugo, was found fatally injured from a gunshot wound when officials came to arrest him last week. Initial reports said he committed suicide, but those who found him said he may have been murdered.
Also charged Wednesday were Politburo member Oleg Shenin, Valery I Boldin, the presidents chief of staff; Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Valentin I. Varennikov: Lt. Gen Yurt S Plekhanov, head of the KGB bodyguard service: Plekhanov’s deputy, Vyacheslav Gerneralov; and Vladimir Grushko, deputy chief of the KGB.
In another development, the Soviet Central Bank froze all Communist Party accounts on Tuesday to prevent the party from hiding assets ordered seized by President Gorbachev.
A statement by Gosbank, reported by Tass news agency, said the freeze was Imposed after ft became apparent the party was investing some of its financial wealth in various ven-. tures.
"In order to to prevent the concealment of party funds from the people, Gosbank has issued Instructions to halt all operations involving the accounts of the Soviet Communist Party and organisations subordinate to it."
Gosbank said it had information that party funds, generated largely through mem-
bership dues, were being Invested In joint stock compa nies, joint ventures, commer cial bank* and other profitmaking bodies.
La t vian rad io reported that authorities in the Baltic republic had adopted similar measure, banning all financial op-erations involving funds of the 1 Communist Party and organisations affiliated to it.
Today Gorbachev also di»-solved the ruling board of the KGB as part of efforts to restore his authority after last week's failed coup, a KGB spokesman said.
The spokesman said Gorbachev Issued a decree dissolving the KGB collegium— essentially the board of directors of the once-feared security police. One of its members, Deputy Chairman Viktor Grushkov, had been arrested while other* may remain at their departmental desks with reduced powers.
The collegium had consisted of departmental heads, deputy chairmen and the KGB chairman.
Gorbachev has also ordered the transfer of hundreds of thousands of KGB troops, formerly controlled by the collegium, to the Minislry of Defence.
The destruction of the collegium removes a major power structure and potential centre of resistance to command from Gorbachev's newly- appointed KGB chairman Vadim Bakatin.
In a bitter speech to parliament Gorbachev promised to reorganise the KGB and the armed forces, nothing that despite reservations and even resistance by some officers considerable military hardware was put on the streets to back the coup.
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