The head of one of the departments of Naftan OJSC refused a $40,000 bribe and helped detain the briber

August 24, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The head of one of the departments of OJSC "Naftan" refused a bribe of $40,000 and helped detain the Russian bribe-giver, Vladimir Belous, Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the region for supervision over the enforcement of legislation on state security of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, told a BELTA correspondent.

The head of one of the commercial firms from the Rostov region tried to acquire four decommissioned refrigeration units containing copper alloys at OJSC "Naftan" at a reduced price, without a tender. For each unit, he offered $10,000. The persistent and repeated requests of the Russian businessman for assistance, despite the categorical refusal, forced the head of the plant's department to turn to the state security agencies for help.

While already under the control of employees of the Vitebsk regional department of the KGB of Belarus, the resident of Rostov handed over to the Naftan employee, as an advance payment, a sum equivalent to $20,000 for a deal that he considered successful. At the same time, according to Vladimir Belous, despite repeated warnings from the Naftan employee that the businessman's actions were illegal and threatened criminal liability, he replied that this was a normal business practice in his country.

The bribe-giver was convicted by the court of Novopolotsk under Part 2 of Article 431 "Giving a bribe" of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus and sentenced to two years of imprisonment. The cassation instance took into account the convicted person's admission of guilt, his family situation, and health status, and replaced the imprisonment with a fine of Br35 million. The fine was paid, and the bribe-giver returned to his homeland.-0-