A group of illegal entrepreneurs in the Vitebsk region developed a turnover of almost Br1 billion.

May 29, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The activities of an organized group of illegal entrepreneurs have been suppressed in the Vitebsk region, said Andrey Krasko, Deputy Head of the 9th Department (for the Vitebsk region) of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, at a briefing today, BELTA correspondent reports. It was established that from 2011 to February of the current year, a number of residents of the region aged 25 to 55, having united into an organized group, carried out barter transactions without registering entrepreneurial activities. The group included people holding positions from managers to heads of various commercial structures. They successfully combined official work with illegal activities. The company's base was located in the Polotsk district. Goods - auto parts and cereals - worth more than Br350 million were confiscated from the warehouses of illegal entrepreneurs. The total turnover reached almost Br1 billion. At the same time, barter transactions were carried out with a number of large, including state-owned, enterprises in the Vitebsk region. Two of the most active members of the formation have been detained and taken into custody. A criminal case has been initiated against them for illegal entrepreneurial activity committed as part of an organized group under Part 3 of Article 233 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, which provides for up to seven years of imprisonment with possible confiscation of property. An investigation is underway. -0-