{"id":506116,"date":"2025-12-29T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=506116"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:56:32","slug":"business-spouses-hand-over-state-enterprise-director-to-investigators-over-kickbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/business-spouses-hand-over-state-enterprise-director-to-investigators-over-kickbacks","title":{"rendered":"Business Spouses Hand Over State Enterprise Director to Investigators Over Kickbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAfter 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,\u201d<\/i> the Investigative Committee said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In July this year, the spouses <i>\u201cvoluntarily appeared before law enforcement agencies and \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043d\u043e outlined the entire scheme of criminal actions,\u201d<\/i> according to the investigation. What prompted them to take this step was not specified.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the director had been receiving bribes for seven years, with their total amount exceeding 200,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe 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\u2019s authorization, a preventive measure in the form of detention was applied to him,\u201d<\/i> the Investigative Committee said.<\/p>\n<p>The spouses who leased out the property were released from criminal liability because they voluntarily reported the giving of a bribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69526c78dc68a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Business Spouses Hand Over State Enterprise Director to Investigators Over Kickbacks"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}