Belarusian Prosecutor's Office celebrates professional holiday

Today, the Belarusian Prosecutor's Office celebrates its professional holiday. Yesterday, the deputy attorney general commented on a number of high-profile corruption crimes. The court of Pervomaisky District of Minsk started hearings on the case of the deputy chairman of the Belkoopsoyuz. The amount of bribe was about 2,500 dollars. It was also reported that the detained inspector for Grodno Region Sergei Rovnieko received a bribe for helping to organize a cigarette business.

Also, the deputy prosecutor general spoke about amendments to articles of the criminal code having to do with drugs. The Office initiated a lowering of the lower limits for the second and third parts of the article on illicit drug trafficking.