Record Bribe Registered in Vitebsk Region

11.03.2010 18:51
Архив Редакция

In Vitebsk region, regional prosecutor's office has detected a record bribe of $ 28 thousand dollars. This amount of money received the former chief of configuration office of RUPP "Vityaz" from the Chinese company, according to the regional prosecutor's office. "This case — which is still being under investigation – continues, this is more an exception than a rule" — told the Vitebsk regional prosecutor Gennady Dysko. 

According to the prosecutor, usually, the material rewards of bribe taker are not more than two thousand dollars. «Bribery and thefts accounted for more than 60% of all corruption-related crimes in Vitebsk region”, said Gennady Dysko, according to BelTA information.

«The second most common crime in this area is a forgery», said the prosecutor, recalling, that in total for 2009, there were 527 corruption crimes discovered in Vitebsk region.

According to Gennady Dysko, none of the official bribe takers “come to law enforcement agencies with a confession, and the percentage of confessed bribe payers is 22.8%”.

«These people who gave money to solve their problems and have not achieved the desired result because of various reasons. So, they primarily wanted to free themselves from criminal responsibility for their crime», said the prosecutor of Vitebsk region.

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