Businessman Mikalay Autukhovich Starts Another Hunger Strike :: Charter'97 :: News

A businessman from Vaukavysk Mikalay Autukhovich has announced another hunger strike, which is the third within the last two years. As said by him, another attack against his business has been started by tax inspection and local authorities.

As Radio Svaboda informs, the wife of the entrepreneur, who is a co-founder of the firm “Nika-Trans”, was handed in a statement that she should be carried before justice as a suspect in the criminal case on tax evasion on a large scale. The director of the firm Yury Lyavonau is also a suspect in the case. The property of the both entrepreneurs is distrained. They are threatened that the property of the firm would be confiscated as well.

The investigation considers as the evasion of taxes that according to an agreement the firm sent its taxi-drivers to work on the cars of entrepreneur Autukhovich. The investigation believes that the firm, and not the entrepreneur, was rendering services of a taxi, though the firm does not have a license for that. Thus it is to return the income for the whole period of work, from spring 2003 to autumn 2004, to the state.