{"id":531006,"date":"2026-04-03T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=531006"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:02:16","slug":"prosecutors-accuse-charity-foundation-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/prosecutors-accuse-charity-foundation-of-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Accuse Charity Foundation Of Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Hrodna Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has opened a criminal case against officials of the charity foundation Miracle for Children. They are accused of fraud on an especially large scale.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, foreign nationals serving as the foundation&#8217;s founders, director and deputy director misappropriated at least 390,000 rubles between June 2024 and April 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;It is known that the collection of money and donations was carried out by volunteers on the central streets of the regional centres of Hrodna, Brest, Vitsyebsk and Homiel.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>Between 20 and 50 volunteers worked in each regional centre. They were unaware of the criminal schemes of the foundation&#8217;s organisers and the theft of funds, believing that all donations were being used to help needy and sick children. Funds were collected in cash and through transfers to the foundation&#8217;s bank account using the donor&#8217;s bank card.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>In most cases, the collected funds were not used for charitable assistance, but were spent on the personal needs of the suspects,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects has been detained. The others are abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hrodna Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has opened a criminal case against officials of the charity foundation Miracle for Children. They are accused of fraud on an especially large scale. According to prosecutors, foreign nationals serving as the foundation&#8217;s founders, director and deputy director misappropriated at least 390,000 rubles between June 2024 and April 2025. &#8220;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69cfac4d486f1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Prosecutors Accuse Charity Foundation Of Fraud"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531006","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=531006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}