The head of the department of the UDFFR of the KGB for the Vitebsk region was sentenced to 10 years in prison for receiving a bribe

September 17, Minsk /BELTA/. The head of the preliminary investigation department of the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee for the Vitebsk region has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for taking a bribe. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus. As established during the preliminary investigation, Lashkevich A.P., using his official powers for personal enrichment, received a bribe of $5,000 through intermediaries on November 14, 2008, for favorable resolution of issues concerning assistance in terminating the audit of the financial and economic activities of two individual entrepreneurs, imposing minimal penalties on them, returning a computer disk with client data, and also for not bringing one of them to criminal responsibility. The court of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk sentenced Lashkevich to 10 years of imprisonment in a correctional labor colony under an enhanced regime, with confiscation of property, and also deprived him of the right to hold leadership positions in law enforcement agencies for 5 years. In addition, in this criminal case, another citizen was sentenced to four and a half years of restriction of liberty without being sent to an open-type institution for incitement to give a large bribe and for bribery mediation. The sentence has entered into legal force.-0-