{"id":538819,"date":"2026-05-03T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=538819"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:06:42","slug":"fraud-scheme-involving-fictitious-agricultural-machinery-repairs-uncovered-in-viciebsk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/fraud-scheme-involving-fictitious-agricultural-machinery-repairs-uncovered-in-viciebsk-region","title":{"rendered":"Fraud Scheme Involving Fictitious Agricultural Machinery Repairs Uncovered In Viciebsk Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Economic crime officers in the Viciebsk Region have uncovered a scheme involving the \u043d\u0435\u0437\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0445\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0431\u044e\u0434\u0436\u0435\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432 at an agricultural enterprise in the region.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pressmvd\/22224\">reported<\/a> by the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service, a 45-year-old head of one of the agricultural enterprises in the regional center, together with three subordinates and with the assistance of officials from other agro-industrial organizations, falsified documents. The suspects entered knowingly false information into work completion certificates for the repair of agricultural machinery that was never actually carried out. As a result, 230,000 rubles were excessively spent from the budget.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened for abuse of power or official authority. The suspects face up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic crime officers in the Viciebsk Region have uncovered a scheme involving the \u043d\u0435\u0437\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0445\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0431\u044e\u0434\u0436\u0435\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432 at an agricultural enterprise in the region. As reported by the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service, a 45-year-old head of one of the agricultural enterprises in the regional center, together with three subordinates and with the assistance of officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f8296555a88.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Fraud Scheme Involving Fictitious Agricultural Machinery Repairs Uncovered In Viciebsk Region"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538819","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\/538819","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}