Lukashenka Demands Stricter Surveillance Over Top Directorates From Prosecutor’s :: Charter'97 :: News

On January 28 Alyaxandar Lukashenka called for more severe supervision over obedience to laws in fuel and energy sphere, in the system of finance and credit, in the sphere of licensed activities, declaring of the profits and property from the Public Prosecutor General Viktar Sheiman. He also ordered to make surveillance over top directors of organizations stricter, and to insist on full compensation of the material loss, caused by negligence, abuse of office, non-authorized use of budget and credit money.

As became known from Sheiman’s report, that was presented to Lukashenka, a investigation structure of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2001 has investigated and forwarded to courts 3684 cases. Public prosecutors restarted investigation on 6000 criminal cases that had been stopped or suspended before, found guilty suspects in 44213 criminal cases, that is two times as much as in 2000.

According the results of the inspections by the public prosecutor’s office, more than 20,000 indictments were drawn charging top managers of different state organizations, more than 20,000 people were sentenced to disciplinary, administrative and material answerability. Courts accepted 9.8 thousand suits of public prosecutors, more than 23 billion BYB were called to account of the state. On the initiative of public prosecutors, offenders paid 13.6 billion BYB to compensate losses without courts decisions.