{"id":545077,"date":"2026-05-25T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=545077"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:42:13","slug":"prosecutors-send-bribery-cases-in-housing-and-utilities-sector-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/prosecutors-send-bribery-cases-in-housing-and-utilities-sector-to-court","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Send Bribery Cases in Housing and Utilities Sector to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Brest Region Prosecutor\u2019s Office has sent four criminal cases involving bribery in the housing and utilities sector to court. The defendants are employees of state-owned enterprises in the utilities and industrial sectors in Baranavichy District, Stolin District, the city of Brest and Minsk Region.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;According to case materials, from June 2024 to March 2026 the defendants received money from employees of a commercial organisation specialising in the sale and servicing of pumping equipment for water supply and sewage systems.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><i>The unlawful payments, essentially kickbacks, were provided in exchange for giving preferential treatment to this organisation as a supplier of imported pumping equipment and as a contractor for its servicing and repair&#8221;<\/i><\/em>, the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The total amount of bribes received exceeded 8,500 Belarusian roubles.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants fully admitted guilt and expressed sincere remorse. Income obtained through criminal activity was fully repaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brest Region Prosecutor\u2019s Office has sent four criminal cases involving bribery in the housing and utilities sector to court. The defendants are employees of state-owned enterprises in the utilities and industrial sectors in Baranavichy District, Stolin District, the city of Brest and Minsk Region. &#8220;According to case materials, from June 2024 to March 2026 [&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\/05\/6a14278905460.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Prosecutors Send Bribery Cases in Housing and Utilities Sector to Court"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545077","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\/545077","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=545077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545077\/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=545077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}