Deputy Prosecutor General Aliaksei Stuk displayed a peculiar sense of humour at a press conference summarising the Prosecutor General’s Office’s work in 2025, which took place today.
Asked how legislation on preventive supervision and preventive monitoring of citizens who have served their sentences and been released is working, Stuk replied:
“You really want to say, you said ‘released’, but this is a temporary phenomenon,” the deputy prosecutor general said with a smile.
Stuk recalled that following changes to the legislation, persons under preventive supervision or released under preventive monitoring must be employed.
If in June 2024 only 30 percent of supervised individuals were employed in the economy, by January 2026 this figure had risen to 84 percent.
Persons under supervision committed 1,859 crimes. More than half of them, 53 percent, were related to failure to comply with supervision requirements. At the same time, those not employed in the economy committed 1,290 crimes, while those employed committed 569.
Persons under preventive monitoring committed 2,390 crimes. Of these, the unemployed accounted for 1,544, while those employed accounted for 840.
Based on these data, Stuk concluded that employment helps ensure that persons under supervision or monitoring do not commit crimes.