{"id":558288,"date":"2026-07-09T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558288"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:00:37","slug":"head-of-minsk-company-penalised-for-paying-dividends-to-a-founder-from-an-unfriendly-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/head-of-minsk-company-penalised-for-paying-dividends-to-a-founder-from-an-unfriendly-country","title":{"rendered":"Head of Minsk Company Penalised for Paying Dividends to a Founder From an \u201cUnfriendly\u201d Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Minsk Prosecutor\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/prokuratura.gov.by\/ru\/media\/novosti\/soblyudenie-ekonomicheskikh-interesov-gosudarstva\/v-sfere-ekonomiki\/vyvod-aktivov-i-kapi09072026\/\">identified<\/a> a violation of Belarus\u2019 countersanctions measures by a Minsk-based company.<\/p>\n<p>The company paid more than 21,000 Belarusian roubles in dividends to its founder from an \u201cunfriendly\u201d country without obtaining permission from the Minsk City Executive Committee. However, since July 2025, transfers of dividends to participants from \u201cunfriendly\u201d countries have required approval from the executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office issued an order to the head of the company requiring the violation to be remedied and demanded that the funds be returned. The executive was also held administratively liable under Article 24.58 of the Code of Administrative Offences (\u201cFailure to take measures to ensure the proper organisation of a legal entity\u2019s activities\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minsk Prosecutor\u2019s Office identified a violation of Belarus\u2019 countersanctions measures by a Minsk-based company. The company paid more than 21,000 Belarusian roubles in dividends to its founder from an \u201cunfriendly\u201d country without obtaining permission from the Minsk City Executive Committee. However, since July 2025, transfers of dividends to participants from \u201cunfriendly\u201d countries have required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":558287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4f6338cbee9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Head of Minsk Company Penalised for Paying Dividends to a Founder From an \u201cUnfriendly\u201d Country"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558288","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=558288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}