Fuel thieves from a oil pipeline detained in the Orsha district

August 12, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Diesel fuel thieves from a oil pipeline have been detained in the Orsha district, the information and public relations department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Department informed a BELTA correspondent.

Employees of the Orsha interregional department 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 detained three unemployed residents of Orsha, born in 1982, 1983, and 1978, in the forest near the village of Khoduly at night while they were stealing diesel fuel from the main oil pipeline of the private enterprise "Zapad-Transnefteprodukt". The illegal extraction amounted to 300 liters of diesel fuel.

A criminal case has been initiated against the offenders, who have previously been convicted of theft, under Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of Belarus ("Theft committed repeatedly, or by a group of persons, or with illegal entry into a dwelling"), which provides for up to 4 years of imprisonment.-0-