Violations of anti-corruption legislation have been identified in the education system of the Vitebsk region

September 14, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. The Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office has uncovered violations of anti-corruption legislation in the region's education system. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Vasily Pashkovsky, senior prosecutor of the anti-corruption and organized crime department of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Facts of improper fulfillment of anti-corruption legislation requirements and an insufficient level of preventive work to prevent corruption manifestations were established during the prosecutor's inspection. In particular, the powers and responsibilities of the members of the standing commission for the prevention of corruption in the education department and its subordinate institutions were not sufficiently regulated in its charter. The commission's composition was not updated after personnel changes, and meeting minutes were missing. "All this together indicates the formality of the commission's establishment, which actually did not function," emphasized Vasily Pashkovsky.

Currently, a criminal case under Article 210 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement by abuse of office) is being investigated against a former accounting employee of the centralized accounting department under the education department. The woman is suspected of embezzling funds from the education department by drawing up fictitious documents and overstating the volume of work performed under contracts concluded with third parties. A criminal case has been sent to court accusing a former chief accountant of one of the educational institutions in Orsha of committing a corruption crime, also using official powers.

Facts of issuing fictitious employment orders for the purpose of embezzling funds were revealed at the Polotsk State Children's Social Shelter and Novopolotsk Secondary School No. 10.

"Thus, the attention paid by the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Education Department to the implementation of anti-corruption legislation and the prevention of corruption crimes does not yet allow for the full effectiveness of this work," stated the prosecutor.

As a result of the prosecutor's inspection, response measures have been taken, and 17 officials of the education system have been brought to disciplinary responsibility.-0-