On February 2, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. A doctor from one of Orsha's polyclinics has been detained for issuing fictitious sick leaves, the Information and Public Relations Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate told a BELTA correspondent. For a bribe of Br280 thousand, the head of the medical institution's department was ready to favorably resolve the issue of issuing a fictitious sick leave certificate to an unemployed person born in 1982. A criminal case has been initiated against the 53-year-old healthcare worker under Part 2 of Article 430 "Receiving a bribe" of the Criminal Code of Belarus, which provides for up to ten years of imprisonment with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to hold certain positions. -0-

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