Oppositionist from Shklou sentenced to 5 years of medium security prison
5- 1.04.2008, 11:36
Today judge of Shklou district court Alyaksandr Tarakanau read a sentence on the criminal case against Alyaksandr Fyodarau, boilermaker of the local municipal service.
He was sentenced to 5 years of medium security prison for allegedly “official misconduct and appropriation of state property.”
The property of the condemned will be forfeited. He must return 15.342.600 rubles to the state. Moreover, Alyaksandr Fyodarau is forbidden to take executive posts for 5 years, Radio Svaboda reports.
It’s possible to appeal against the sentence in superior court during 10 days.
Alyaksandr Fyodarau is a head of Shklou structure of the Belarusian Popular Front party, an active participant of electoral campaigns. In 2001 he was arrested during the presidential campaign on an order of district prosecutor, but was released later.
In his last statement Alyaksandr Fyodarau said he had been unlawfully kept in custody for 9 months.
“I have a family, children, elderly mother, I am their only support,” Alyaksandr Fyodarau emphasised in his speech.
