Ex-Boss Of Criminal Investigation Department In Chachersk Sentenced To 9 Years Of Imprisonment In Reinforced-Security Colony

For fraud and more.

The court made a sentence in the case of former head of the criminal investigation department of the Chachersk District Department of Internal Affairs Dzmitry Yaustratsenka: he was accused of receiving a bribe, fraud, abuse of power, forgery of documents. Four more people were in the dock together with him. One of the accused was released from criminal liability, the rest received real prison terms, as tut.by was informed at the prosecutor's office.

So, the main person involved in the case was sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment (the prosecutor requested less) in a reinforced-security penal colony with a fine of 5.1 thousand rubles, deprivation of the special rank of “major of the police”, and deprivation of the right to occupy positions in the law-enforcement agencies for a term of five years.

Hospital lawyer Maryna Yaustratsenka, accused of taking property by deception and forging documents, was punished with 4 years 6 months in a general regime penal colony.

Yauhen Dantsou, accused of incitement to give a bribe, attempted possession of someone else’s property and fraud, was sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in a reinforced-security penal colony.

Alesia Ivanchykava was sentenced to 4 years in a penal colony for attempted possession of someone else’s property and fraud.

Before the trial, Maryna Yaustratsenka, Dantsou and Ivanchykava were on recognizance not to leave the place, after the announcement of the verdict they were taken into custody.

The sister of the policeman Larysa Yaustratsenka, who worked at the district executive committee at the time of his arrest, was released from criminal liability in connection with the amnesty.

What did they all stand trial for?

The ex-policeman was accused of receiving a bribe, fraud, abuse of power, forgery of documents. In all episodes, Yaustratsenka categorically denied his guilt. He and his lawyer alleged that he was slandered.

According to the investigation, Yaustratsenka began his criminal activity in 2014. Then he was in the position of the senior operative of the drug control and anti-trafficking group of the criminal police of the Chachersk District Department of Internal Affairs.

So, the ex-policeman incited and disposed a local resident to give a bribe in the amount of 300 rubles for the promise not to prosecute him for the use of narcotic drugs. According to Yaustratsenka, it was possible to do this by substituting the results of the medical examination of the accused.

He also convinced a local resident that for $ 400 he would assist in the release of her relative from the temporary detention center, where he ended up on suspicion of possession of drugs. Later, Yaustratsenka promised the woman to release the relative from criminal liability under this article. She, the investigation claims, handed over to the policeman a total of $ 2,400.

In 2017, for $ 600, the policeman promised another local resident to replace the results of biological research so that he could avoid criminal liability for the use and possession of drugs.

In the next episode, under the threat of falsification of evidence of drug possession and the distribution of pornographic materials, Yaustratsenka persuaded a local resident to sell a house to his former mother-in-law. The real estate of 70 square meters with buildings and a plot of land cost buyers 5 thousand dollars and a Nissan Almera.

The former policeman could not carry out his criminal intentions alone - he needed co-partners. So in the case there are four more defendants: Yaustratsenka’s sister Larysa, his cohabitant Maryna Yaustratsenka (the namesake of the accused) and two civil spouses from Raukovichyi - Alesia Ivanchykava and Yauhen Dantsou, working as field farmers in the local household. All of them are involved in frauds with real estate and money of lonely pensioners. The couple partially admitted guilt.

Yaustratsenka asked a familiar field worker to issue guardianship over an old man from the House of Nursing. Yaustratsenka's common-law wife, who worked as a lawyer in a local hospital, helped to arrange paperwork and pick up a senior citizen from the institution. As a result, the elderly man was relocated to a house in the village, and the policemen got the keys to his apartment in Chachersk.

In March 2018, another pensioner with dementia came into view of Yaustratsenka. The elderly man had a bank account with the amount of 11 thousand rubles, and an apartment. The policeman again involved a familiar field worker and his cohabitant to the case: they were supposed to be the guardians, but the relevant documents were not officially drawn up. In a fraudulent way (and again not without the help of Yaustratsenka’s common-law wife), the old man was released from the Nisimkovichy Nursing Hospital, and the company went with him straight to the bank to withdraw the money from the man’s account. In one of the departments, an employee showed vigilance and called the police. The check began. In order to evade responsibility, Yaustratsenka connected his sister Larysa, who served as a manager in the Chachersk district executive committee, to the case. The woman issued papers for custody of the elderly retroactively, and Yaustratsenka attached them to the materials of the check.