A resident of Novopolotsk defrauded his compatriots of more than Br100 million

August 25, Minsk /BELTA/. A resident of Novopolotsk has defrauded his fellow countrymen of more than Br100 million, the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus told BELTA. Operatives of the Department for Combating Corruption and Economic Crimes in Novopolotsk have detained a 47-year-old local resident. The man is suspected of fraudulently acquiring Br111.8 million belonging to four residents of Novopolotsk. In Slutsk, operatives also detained a resident of the village of Mikheyki. From March 2008 to January 2009, the 51-year-old man fraudulently acquired Br51.5 million and $60,000 belonging to a citizen of Russia. In both cases, criminal cases have been initiated by the police against the fraudsters under Part 4 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("Fraud committed by an organized group or on a particularly large scale"). Now they face up to ten years with confiscation of property. -0-