Criminal cases have been initiated against the heads of the Orsha Meat Canning Plant

April 12, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A number of criminal cases have been initiated against the management of the Orsha Meat Canning Plant, the press group of the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region informed a BELTA correspondent. The illegal activities of the officials of OJSC "Orsha Meat Canning Plant" headed by the General Director have been suppressed by the KGB Directorate for the Vitebsk Region in cooperation with the 9th Directorate (for the Vitebsk Region) of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. It has been established that the officials organized a scheme for transferring funds outside of Belarus - through shell companies in the Russian Federation, they withdrew about $2 million from the plant's assets, thereby causing damage to the enterprise on a particularly large scale. Under the direction of the General Director, state statistical reporting was intentionally distorted in the amount of over Br20 billion. Among other facts of illegal activity by the enterprise's management is the provision of distorted data to the prosecutor's office regarding the amount of damage caused by a fire that occurred in the plant's refrigeration workshop in May 2011. At that time, four plant workers died as a result of the emergency. In reality, the damage from the fire amounted to more than Br200 million instead of the declared Br7 million. Facts of the director's abuse of his official powers in the construction of personal real estate, where the labor of employees and construction materials of the enterprise were used, have also been established. These facts were documented by an audit of the financial and economic activities of OJSC "Orsha Meat Canning Plant" conducted by an interdepartmental group of specialists from the State Control Committee, the Ministry of Finance, the KGB Directorate, and the Department for Financial Investigations of the Ministry of Finance for the Vitebsk Region. Criminal cases have been initiated against the General Director of the Orsha Meat Canning Plant under Part 2 of Article 424 (abuse of power or official authority) and Part 2 of Article 427 (official forgery) of the Criminal Code of Belarus. A criminal case has been initiated against the First Deputy General Director under Part 2 of Article 427 (official forgery), and against the former Deputy General Director for Marketing and Sales - under Part 3 of Article 426 (exceeding power or official authority). Currently, a set of measures is being carried out aimed at establishing other facts of illegal activities by officials. -0-