The Prosecutor General’s Office has sent to court a case against three officials who held executive positions at insurance companies. They are accused of receiving bribes on an especially large scale. One of the defendants has also been charged with large-scale fraud involving the misappropriation of funds.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the accused received bribes from a foreign medical organization over a period of 10 years.
“According to the case materials, the accused, acting independently of one another, over a long period of time (more than 10 years) and with a unified intent, accepted money as bribes from a representative of a foreign commercial organization providing service assistance in arranging medical care abroad for insured persons. The payments were made in exchange for the opportunity to cooperate with Belarusian insurers and for preferential treatment of this foreign organization. The total amount of income obtained by the accused through criminal means exceeded 1.2 million rubles,” the statement said.
One of the defendants is also accused of having, while serving as an adviser to the chief executive officer of an insurance company, fraudulently and through abuse of trust misappropriated funds belonging to another party in the amount of about 29,000 rubles.
The bribe giver was released from criminal liability. He voluntarily reported the bribery and actively cooperated with the investigation.
Preventive measures in the form of detention and bail have been applied to the accused. Property belonging to the defendants, the value of which far exceeded the income obtained through criminal means, has been seized.
