Lukashenka ordered to dismiss tow deputy Ministers of Internal Affairs, prosecutors and judges

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has stated that in November a number of high-ranking officials are to be dismissed from the internal affairs institutions, the General Prosecutor’s office and courts.

“Over November these people (as well as a number of other officials) are to be dismissed from the internal affairs agencies,” Lukashenka stated at the consultations dedicated to the issues of struggle with corruption.

“10 high-ranking officials of the Internal Affairs Ministry consciously dared to laws infringement in order to receive land in Minsk region. I will tell their names for everybody to know: they are first deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Shchurko, deputy Minister Filistovich, former deputy ministers Radzyukevich, Hlukhouski, a director of Finance and Logistics System Department Melnikau, a director of the Department on Citizenship and Migration Ivanchikava, a former Penal jurisdiction department director Kouchur, a former advisor of the Internal Affairs Minister Karpajchyk, a doctor of the Internal Affairs Ministry’s hospital Burko, an official of the Chief Directorate of Internal Affairs of Minsk Novik,” Lukashenka said.

Lukashenka ordered the Prosecutor General of the country Ryhor Vasilevich to offer the deputy Prosecutor general Mikalay Kupryjanau and Minks region’s prosecutor Mikhail Snyahir to vacate their positions and to initiate a criminal case against them.

“By the end of the day today the Prosecutor General should order the deputy Prosecutor General Mikalay Kupryjanau and Minks region’s prosecutor Mikhail Snyahir to vacate their positions, and to initiate a criminal case. In the framework of the criminal proceedings all stages, including the one of the moral part should be passed,” he said.

The Belarusian leader stated that “in May 2007 the prosecutor of Minsk region Snyahir bought from a representative of a commercial firm a 5-room apartment in the centre of Minsk which is more than 200 square metres and has a underground garage”. “The first question is: where the prosecutor has found the money for that? You know how much such an apartment in the centre of Minsk costs,” he underlined. As said by him, “he (Snyahir) bought the apartment from a person who hadn’t a right to represent that firm at that time, and moreover was redundant”. “Besides”, he continued, “that apartment could not be sold by a legal entity, as a worker of the firm Sidarovich lived there. He has a contract of lease with the firm until 2024”.

Lukashenka underlined that “the apartment was bought by Snyahir at a reduced cost, just Br156 million, while its market cost was more than $500,000”. “In order to put a varnish of legality the operation,

Snyahir made a false additional agreement to the purchase/sale agreement with a different price, 535 million Br,” A. Lukashneka said.

As said by him, Sidarovich who llived in the apartment turned to the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk. “And what position was adopted by judges Illina, Esman and Paulyuchuk, how do you think? Judge Illina coordinated the sequence of her actions on the phone with Snyahir. And judges Esman and Paulyuchuk decided to inflict a punishment upon householder Siadrovich for alleged unwarranted alterations to the apartment,” A. Lukashenka noted.

The leader of the state has also underlined that “Sidarovich addressed the General Prosecutor’s office 8 times with a complaint against illegal actions of Snyahir”. “He received no answer. All documents were copied from the case by a deputy Prosecutor General Kupryanau who was Snyahir’s friend,” Lukashenka said.

It is strange that Lukashenka says nothing about hundreds of owners of multimillion cottages in the elite settlement of Drazdy, where numerous state officials and businessmen of Lukashenka’s entourage live.