Ex-manager of arms trading company gets 10-year prison sentence 11:33, 16/05/2005
The Belarusian Military Court has sentenced Alexander Andron, a former director general of Belvneshpromservis, a Belarusian company trading in arms and military-purpose equipment, to 10 years in prison over his involvement in a fraudulent scheme. The ex-manager will have his property confiscated and be debarred from managerial positions and entrepreneurial activities for a five-year period.
The court also sentenced the company’s maintenance expert to 2 years in prison and handed down a two-year sentence to a businessman, both men identified as S. (name unknown) and Gennadi Zheltko, respectively, charged in the same case.
As Yury Azaryonok, spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, told BelaPAN, the former manager together with Zheltko used documents of several foreign companies and their accounts with Latvian banks to strike deals with Belvneshpromservis, earning over $5 million as a result of the illegal operations.
In addition, S. and Zheltko were found guilty of misappropriating more than EUR2,700 and $3,000 in travel expenses.
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