{"id":557056,"date":"2026-07-05T12:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=557056"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:12:22","slug":"furniture-store-manager-in-lida-suspected-of-fraudulent-installment-plans-and-off-the-books-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/furniture-store-manager-in-lida-suspected-of-fraudulent-installment-plans-and-off-the-books-sales","title":{"rendered":"Furniture Store Manager in Lida Suspected of Fraudulent Installment Plans and Off-the-Books Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers from the Hrodna Region Department for Combating Economic Crimes have identified the cause of a major inventory shortage at a retail outlet in Lida.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pressmvd\/23424\">the Interior Ministry<\/a>, the 48-year-old manager of a furniture store, who had access to the company&#8217;s accounting systems, issued fraudulent installment payment agreements when selling goods. He deposited only a small portion of the proceeds into the cash register and kept the rest for himself. He also periodically sold merchandise without recording the transactions through the cash register.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, over a period of just more than three years, the suspect embezzled more than 165,000 Belarusian rubles, which he spent on personal needs.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have opened a criminal case on charges of embezzlement through abuse of official authority. The man faces up to 12 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the Hrodna Region Department for Combating Economic Crimes have identified the cause of a major inventory shortage at a retail outlet in Lida. According to the Interior Ministry, the 48-year-old manager of a furniture store, who had access to the company&#8217;s accounting systems, issued fraudulent installment payment agreements when selling goods. He deposited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":557055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4a4a297bd29.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Furniture Store Manager in Lida Suspected of Fraudulent Installment Plans and Off-the-Books Sales"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557056","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\/557056","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=557056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}