The verdict for the former Deputy Governor of the Vitebsk region may be delivered this month

August 23, Minsk /BELTA/. Today, closing arguments were heard in the Minsk City Court in the case of Leonid Kovalev, former Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, and Gunnar Kool, a citizen, BELTA was informed by the Minsk Prosecutor's Office. As explained by the capital's prosecutor's office, the sentencing is scheduled for this month. The Minsk Prosecutor's Office also reported that the state prosecutor asked the court to sentence the accused Kovalev to seven years of imprisonment in a correctional colony under a reinforced regime, with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organizational-managerial and administrative-economic duties for five years. This defendant was charged under Part 3 of Article 430 (receiving a bribe on a particularly large scale) of the Criminal Code of Belarus. His accomplice, Estonian citizen Gunnar Kool, was charged under Part 6 of Article 16 (complicity in a crime) and Part 3 of Article 430 of the Criminal Code. The state prosecutor asked to sentence this defendant, who is currently under house arrest and attended today's hearing, to five years of imprisonment in a correctional colony under a reinforced regime, with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to hold certain positions for three years. -0-