Business spouses handed over to investigators the director of a state-owned enterprise to whom they had been paying kickbacks. The criminal case was reported by the Investigative Committee.
According to the investigation, the spouses, the director and the accountant of a private company, owned a vacant property. They wanted to lease it out. Eventually, a state-owned enterprise became the tenant. Its director took kickbacks from each payment.
“After receiving the rental payment, the accountant paid the utility bills for the property. She then deducted a pre-agreed amount of 210 US dollars from the remaining sum and returned the rest as a bribe to the director of the state-owned enterprise through his relatives,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
In July this year, the spouses “voluntarily appeared before law enforcement agencies and подробно outlined the entire scheme of criminal actions,” according to the investigation. What prompted them to take this step was not specified.
According to investigators, the director had been receiving bribes for seven years, with their total amount exceeding 200,000 rubles.
“The former head of the state-owned enterprise did not admit guilt and refused to testify. Following the results of the investigation, he was charged under Part 3 of Article 430 (accepting a bribe on a particularly large scale) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus. With the prosecutor’s authorization, a preventive measure in the form of detention was applied to him,” the Investigative Committee said.
The spouses who leased out the property were released from criminal liability because they voluntarily reported the giving of a bribe.