“BDG” Shows Up in Court Again :: Charter'97 :: News

On November 12 the Oktyabrsky district court of Minsk resumed hearings of a 100mln rubles lawsuit, instituted against the “Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta” and personally journalist Sergei Satsuk. The plaintiff in the case is the former banker Pavel Dik, who claims that one of the Satsuk’s articles “contains data, which does not correspond to reality and humiliates his honor, dignity and business reputation”. Yesterday the court received the materials of examination into the activities of the Belarusian Birzhevy Bank, conducted by the Committee for state control, which strongly reinforced the journalists’ positions. The next court’s session was put off till an indefinite period of time.

The materials of the case, submitted into the Oktyabrsky district court of Minsk, mention two defendants: “BDG” itself and Sergei Satsuk – an author of the article “Investigators preside”, published in the newspapers August 14 issue. Plaintiff Dik is angered by Satsuk’s accusations that it is due to him, that there had been formed a hole in the balance of the BBB, which he had been in charge of back in those days. On November 12 the defendants petitioned the court over a request to make an inquiry into the Supreme Economic Court, which had decided on the BBB’s bankruptcy. The court satisfied the petition.