A criminal case has been initiated against a resident of Orsha for attempting to bribe a criminal police officer

August 25, Minsk /BelTA/. An Orsha resident attempted to bribe an employee of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) of the Criminal Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with $8,000, BelTA was informed by the department of information and public relations of the police department.

A criminal case has been initiated against the 47-year-old deputy director of a private unitary enterprise under Part 2 of Article 431 "Giving a bribe on a large scale" of the Criminal Code of Belarus, which provides for up to seven years of imprisonment.

As explained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, GUBOPiK officers stopped a truck at the "Redki" toll collection point (border of Belarus and Russia). The waybills presented by the driver indicated that he was transporting fertilizer from Minsk to Tver, but in reality, the truck contained 20 tons of sugar worth Br92 million. It is assumed that the illegal cargo was being delivered to Moscow.

On the same day, the aforementioned deputy director of one of the companies decided to bribe an internal affairs officer in order to get the illegal cargo back, but was detained.-0-