KGB VS FID: Enforcers Devour Each Other

Details of the scandal.

The KGB staged arrests in criminal cases of more than 20 officers from the headquarters of the Financial Investigation Department (FID) in Minsk and the Minsk Region for bribes (Art. 430 of the Criminal Code) and abuse of power and official authority (Art. 424 of the Criminal Code). The details of the case are kept secret and there are no official comments. "Fighters for stability" began to eat each other. Or, as the sources say, the young employees of the FID wanted to live no worse than their senior colleagues, but they framed themselves and others.

This is not the first and, we are sure, not the last case when the employees of the FID got caught in corruption.

In 2021, the Nick and Mike Telegram channel published a post about crimes and signs of impurity of high-ranking FID officers. In a state where the rule of law prevails, this information is more than enough to, at least, initiate an official investigation, and then initiate criminal cases. However, that had not been done.

The Belarusian Investigators Alliance (BIA) found out that a criminal case was nevertheless initiated, but not against bribe-takers, but for this revelatory post on social media, which once again confirms that in 2021 the regime was not interested in arrests of the FID officers, since they were needed to carry out repressions: by that time the financial police had actually become part of the political police, following Lukashenka's orders to eliminate independent media, businesses, imprisonment undesirable people or drawing them abroad by fabricating economic criminal cases.

The BIA also received other joint internal reports of the security forces, which mention the FID.

Attention was drawn to the operational reports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the theft on a large scale from the apartment of the head of the Main FID Office V. Shparuk and the case of a rifle cartridge thrown into the office of the Brest businessman.

On December 17, 2020, by pressing the window, someone broke in and robbed the apartment of the head of the Main FID Office, Uladzimir Shparuk.

The housebreaker obviously knew where, to whom and when to penetrate.

The victim "Shpak" Shparuk made a list and estimated the stolen things (BIAEd.: December 17, 2020 USD 1 = BYN 2.52):

- a porcelain ring worth BYN1,200;

- a gold ring worth BYN 1,200;

- a gold ring worth BYN 1,200;

- a gold ring worth BYN 800;

- wedding gold rings with a total value of BYN 900;

- a gold ring worth BYN 1,500;

- a gold necklace with a cross with a total value of BYN 350;

- a gold coin worth BYN 5,000;

- 2 gold necklaces with crosses with a total value of BYN 260;

- GUESS wristwatch worth BYN 700;

- silver earrings worth BYN 100;

- earrings worth BYN 300;

- silver earrings worth BYN 150;

- earrings worth BYN 70;

- women's wristwatch worth BYN 200;

- a Romanson wristwatch worth BYN 200;

- a Tissot wristwatch worth BYN 250;

- ORIENT wristwatch worth BYN 500;

- Poliot wristwatch worth BYN 2,000;

The question involuntarily arises: Was all this stolen from an ordinary apartment or a jewelry store and a watch salon?

The operational report of the MIA confirms: the head of the Main FID Office was robbed, police officers were looking for the criminal with a dog (in the police report the dog is encrypted with the "SRS" abbreviation – Service Search Dog).

Did no one from the investigative and operational group have any suspicions as to where the FID employee got all this from? The question is rhetorical.

I wonder if the names of the slandered Prokopuk family and the robbed Shparuk are on the lists of FIDofficers arrested for bribery.

On May 22, 2019, the Brest DIF Main Office raided the office of the director of the Bravo company. The company is engaged in equipping bars, restaurants, cafes, canteens, shops, food production facilities, etc.

It is normal for the financial police when its employees break into the office with a sudden check or audit, only this time the search unexpectedly ended not with the seizure of accounting reports, but with the discovery of a rifle bullet.

On June 26, 2019, the examination recognized the bullet as a munition suitable for firing. Articles 173, 17- 2, 173- 3 and 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in this case determine the procedure and prescribe to immediately initiate a criminal case.

Apparently, it was "not up to the laws" for the FID even then. One can only guess why the FID and the Investigating Committee made no case file and did not initiate a criminal case for more than a year and what requirements were imposed on the director of Bravo company at that time. It is unknown whether he transferred money to the bank account of some homeless guy.

The culmination came after almost a year and a half: on September 23, 2020, the IC finally registered the case file and on September 24 initiated a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 295 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (Illegal manufacture, acquisition, transfer of possession, sale, storage, transportation, shipment or carrying of firearms, ammunition, explosives... Maximum penalty: imprisonment up to 7 years).

Still, the case was initiated against an unidentified person, who, as it turns out, from an unspecified time to May 22, 2019, illegally bought and planted a rifle 7.62 x54 bullet, which is a munition suitable for firing, in the director's office.

So elegantly copied the case of a patron in the businessman's office. Rhetorical questions are irrelevant now. In a word, “Bravo!”

Against the background of the history of jewelry from Shparuk's apartment, the theft of 18 Thuja trees from the country house of the leading specialist of the FIDMain Office of the Brest region Alena Krauchuk looks like a small theft, but the IC on the day of filing the application initiated a criminal case under Art. 205 of the Criminal Code (Theft). This is not like blackmailing with a planted bullet for a year and a half. The police also took a dog to search for the Thuja trees from the Krauchuk's cottage, as well as in case with Shmaruk's jewelry. Such an "all inclusive" for the close circle of people.

Information in the public domain, as well as leaked internal documents of the enforcers, indicate that the FID or, as they call it, "Financial Police and Intelligence" was originally used not for its intended purpose, but to exert pressure on business, and personal enrichment.