Officers of the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee together with representatives of the State Security Committee detained ten people with two Russians among them. According to investigators, over last three years, detained entrepreneurs laundered money for many businessmen, and not only for Belarusians.
During this time, they have earned more then 100 billion rubles. This figure is the first, but detectives have not doubt that in the future the amount will increase. Because daily turnover of funds exceeded 300 thousand dollars. Entrepreneurs have already been arrested. They will be detained till the trial, BTRC informs.
According to the head of department of crimes investigation of DFI of the State Control Committee of Belarus, Dmitry Adamovich, to launder money the traders registered more than 20 enterprises in Russia, Cyprus, Great Britain, New Zealand and Panama. «Through remote access via Internet, they managed the accounts of these enterprises. Thus, they were involved in illegal financial transactions», Dmitry Adamovich said.
The investigation does not rule out that the defendants could legalize their incomes in the EU.
In his turn, the senior investigator of DFI of the State Control Committee of Belarus, Yuri Korol, said that «if in this case the investigation is only at the beginning, despite already established facts, then another group of businessmen, who had specialized in money laundering, will appear before the court soon». «Over two years, 13 people could earn almost two trillion rubles in such an uncomplicated way», Yuri Korol said.
