{"id":524960,"date":"2026-03-12T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=524960"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:31:22","slug":"belarusian-minister-of-natural-resources-detained-for-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-minister-of-natural-resources-detained-for-bribe","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Minister of Natural Resources Detained for Bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection <strong>Siarhei Maslyak<\/strong>\u00a0has been detained for taking a bribe. This was announced today by <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> at a meeting on combating intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;He was caught red-handed. I warned you that we do not just grab anyone off the street. Shved, and now Dzmitry Hora, are strictly controlling this. If necessary, they will report. No one takes anyone for no reason. If you are guilty \u2014 go and answer for it,&#8221;<\/i> he said, according to his press service.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka emphasized that law enforcement agencies have sufficient resources to detect corruption.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;If they catch you by the &#8216;gills&#8217; taking a bribe \u2014 that\u2019s it, the conversation is over. That is exactly what happened,&#8221;<\/i> he added.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Do not touch what is not yours, leave it alone! Corruption is not just rust, as I used to say. It is war. At its core lies this terrible corruption,&#8221;<\/i> he warned officials.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that Siarhei Maslyak was appointed minister in April 2024. Before that, he headed the administration of Minsk\u2019s Zavadski District for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Siarhei Maslyak\u00a0has been detained for taking a bribe. This was announced today by Alyaksandr Lukashenka at a meeting on combating intermediaries. &#8220;He was caught red-handed. I warned you that we do not just grab anyone off the street. Shved, and now Dzmitry Hora, are strictly controlling this. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":524959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b2a4110c596.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Minister of Natural Resources Detained for Bribe"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524960","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=524960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}