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The Belarusian State Security Committee has completed the "teddy bear invasion" inquiry, Committee First Deputy Chairman Igor Sergeyenko said.

“The investigation is complete,” he told reporters in Minsk on Friday.

Sergeyenko declined to say what outcome the investigation had and what would happen to the suspects.

A light civilian plane piloted by two Swedish citizens entered the Belarusian airspace from Lithuania on July 4, 2012, and airdropped teddy bears with free press appeals over Minsk and Ivenets, Minsk region.

The Belarusian KGB opened a criminal case on border trespassing charges and detained two citizens of Belarus. They were released later with travel restrictions.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko dismissed State Border Committee Chairman Igor Rachkovsky and Air Force/Air Defense Commander Dmitry Pakhmelkin and reprimanded the heads of some law enforcement agencies on July 31, 2012.

In February 2013 the Grodno Inter-Garrison Military Court sentenced to two years in a high security penitentiary the border guard warrant officer who failed to report the border trespassing by the Swish plane. He was found guilty of violation of the border service regulations.