On February 15, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. In the Horadok district, an employee of RUE "Belpochta" has been misappropriating public deposits for 6 years, the assistant prosecutor of the Horadok district, Artyom Zaikin, told a BELTA correspondent. In 2005, the head of a post office in one of the villages of the district accepted Br1 million for the registration of a bank deposit, but "forgot" to register it and misappropriated the money. Over the following years, the woman carried out similar operations with other citizens, thereby appropriating more than Br70 million. At the same time, using the trust of local residents and her authority, she herself initiated the investment of money. If necessary, when applying for deposits, the fraudster gave money from the funds in the cash register. The scam was discovered when, in 2011, one of the villagers decided to withdraw his savings not in his native place, but in a bank in Horadok. Bankers and the depositor, in search of the phantom deposit, called the head of the post office, who, in turn, advised the villager to come to her for settlement. For embezzlement through abuse of official powers, the court of the Horadok district sentenced the 53-year-old woman to five years of imprisonment with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the storage and sale of monetary and commodity-valuable assets for a period of three years. -0-

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