May

2000

The businessmen support the requests of mothers having many children

From May 15, 2000 the Grodno women, mothers having many children go on hunger-strike. The matter is that 13.03.2000 the organisation of the mothers having many children "The Spring of Mercy" was registered. Two months before this event the municipal executive committee had promised to give a room to accommodate this organisation at Grodno, Lenin street 18-5, and the appropriate document has been given out. To get this document mother having many children day after day visited different, waited the officials from the municipal executive committee by hours. The chief of the public organisation "The Spring of Mercy", a mother of 5 small children, asked the officials of all levels to stop to scoff at them, she explained that children are at home alone. All is in vain. "The Servants of the people" specially created obstacles for this organisation. They have gained. They were given the document confirming the legal address. But the mockeries were not stopped. After the state registration in the management of justice of Grodno regional executive committee the women put away the household duties and again began to visit studies with only one request: to give an earlier promised room. It is a simple question. If you promise please give it. But no. 1,5 months the application of women about granting a room for them " had moved" from a study into study. The result is a room was not given, the answer to the written application was not got, A. Pashkevich the chairman of the municipal executive committee refuses to receive the women because of his …. large weariness. Probably our Grodno mayor has other more important problems than the problem of the mothers having many children. Their work is to transfer papers from a study into study and it is very heavy, there are a lot of studies, very much. And on the TV set they assert that to sake the motherhood and childhood they do everything possible, and actually they do everything for the officials of the executive committees. Even if the women find another room, the renewal of the documents on the new legal address will cost approximately 20 minimal wages for them. By their hunger-strike the woman want to pay attention of a wide public to the problems of mothers having many children and to the indifference of the Grodno officials. It is the wildness of the Middle Ages: women have created the organisation, put in it a lot of time, money and an official of an average link does not give to work without any intelligible motivation. The women ask the citizens and all organisations to support them in a hard struggle with the bureaucracy and indifference. They ask to go on actions of the solidarity in the Republic of Belarus. The Grodno businessmen support the requests of the women, join the action of the protest and will render them the help. The meeting and other measures are planned.

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2.05.2000 at 14.10 in Grodno at Lenin square, near the building of the Municipal executive committee 5 journalists of the newspaper "The Reporter" were arrested. The arrest was carried out by the duty of militia of DIA of Leninsky district of Grodno. The arrested persons were put into the automobile RAF and were taken away in DDIA of Leninsky district at Grodno, Telman street 9. The protocol of the detention was not made up. Together with the arrested persons Oleg Sidigaev, Vladimir Sovtsa and Oleg Podgaetsky (phone/fax (0152) 44-61-43) the representatives of the Grodno branch of the Belorussian Helsinki Committee went away. The matter is that in Grodno the newspaper "The Reporter" was formed as the independent edition. For the registration of the newspaper they need "a paper" from the municipal executive committee. And a Pashkevich the chairman of the Grodno executive committee does not give such "paper". The journalists took a desperate step under being led by A. Pisalnik an editor–in–chief of "The Reporter", being tied round by cords, being stuck their mouths they went to the building of the Grodno executive committee 2.05.2000 at 13.30 and stood near the monument to V. Lenin the main inspirer of the newspaper "The Spark". At the T-shirts of the journalists was written: the authority does not love me, for what?. – Each mayor should be given the constitution – If you know cases of the breach of the authority or facts of corruption of the officials from the municipal executive committee call to “The Reporter" on tel. 44-61-22 - I want to be friends with the Mayor and he does not want. For 40 minutes the employees of militia have gone around the journalists and having studied all inscriptions at their T-shirts they have decided to arrest them.

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CC of RB articles 231-235,237 Many businessmen ask us to publish the materials of legal seminars in our bulletin, as they could not participate in a seminar. All material we can not publish, there are a lot of it. And nothing will replace the alive dialogue with the lecturer. But taking into the account the requests of our readers we shall print the separate endurance from the current legislation.

THE CRIMINAL CODE of the REPUBLIC of BELARUS (selection for individual businessmen) it is prepared by the informational-legal centre of the Grodno Trade union of the businessmen "Southern".

Article 231. Deviation from customs payments

1.      The deviation from customs payments in the large size - is punished by the fine, or by the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity, or by the corrective works for the term to two years, or by the arrest for the term to six months, or by the deprivation of freedom for the term to three years.

2.       The same action made by a group of the persons or by the prior repeatedly - is punished by the restriction of freedom for the term to five years or by the deprivation of freedom for the term to six years with the confiscation of property or without the confiscation.

The note. The deviation from customs payments in the large size is the deviation at which the sum of the not paid customs payments exceeds in two thousand time the size of the minimal wage established on the date of the fulfilment of the crime.

Article 232. Impediment to the lawful businessman’s activity

The wrongful refusal to registration or the deviation from the registration of an individual businessman or a juridical person, or the wrongful refusal to issue or the deviation from the issuing of the special sanction or the licenses for the realisation of the certain activity to him, or the unlawful restriction of their rights and interests or other unlawful intervention in the businessman’s activity made by an official with the use of the service powers and which cased damage in the large size, when the attributes of a heavier official crime are absent - are punished by the fine, or by the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity, or by the restriction of freedom for the term to three years, or by the deprivation of freedom on the same term.

Article 233. Illegal businessman’s activity

1.      The businessman’s activity which is carried out without the state registration or without the special sanction (license), when such sanction (license) is necessary (illegal businessman’s activity), connected with the getting of the income in the large size - is punished by the fine, or by the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity, or by the arrest for the term to six months, or by the restriction of freedom for the term to two years, or by the deprivation of freedom for the term to three years.

2.       The illegal businessman’s activity connected with the getting of the income in the especially large size or by the person who had previous convictions for the crime mentioned in this article - is punished by the restriction of freedom for the term to five years or by the deprivation of freedom for the term from two till five years with the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity or without the deprivation.

3.       The illegal businessman’s activity which is carried out by an organised group - is punished by the deprivation of freedom for the term from two till seven years with the confiscation of property or without the confiscation and with the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity or without the deprivation.

Article 234. False business undertakings

The creation of the juridical person without the intention to carry out the authorised activity with the purposes to get the loans, credits, or to conceal the forbidden activity, or to conceal, to understate the profit, incomes or other objects of the taxation, or to extract other property benefit caused damage in the large size (false business undertakings) - is punished by the fine, or by the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity, or by the arrest for the term to six months, or by the restriction of freedom for the term to five years, or by the deprivation of freedom on the same term.

Article 235. Legalisation ("washing up") of the material assets acquired in a criminal way

1.The fulfilment of financial operations and other bargains with money resources valuable papers or other property acquired in an obviously criminal way, the use of these material assets for the realisation of the businessman’s or other economic activity with the purpose to appropriate or to distort the nature, origin, location, accommodation, movement or valid belonging of these material assets or correlated rights with them - are punished by the fine, or by the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity, or by the restriction of freedom for the term to four years, or by the deprivation of freedom on the same term.

2.The same actions accomplished by an official with the use of the service powers or in the especially large size repeatedly - are punished by the deprivation of freedom for the term from two till seven years with the confiscation of property or without the confiscation.

3.The actions mentioned in the first or second parts of this article made by the organised group - are punished by the deprivation of freedom for the term from three till ten years with the confiscation of property or without the confiscation.

The notes: 1.For the actions mentioned in this article the executor of the crime who helped to acquire the material assets is not subject to the criminal liability

2.The person participating in the legalisation of money resources or property acquired in a criminal way is discharged from the criminal liability for these actions if he (she) voluntary declared about the committed crime and helped to disclose a crime.

Article 237. Swindle out of the credit or grants

1.The representation the information about the occurrence of circumstances attracting the suspension of the crediting or grant of to an individual businessman or an official of the legal person with the purposes to get the credit or preferential terms of crediting or apportionment of the grants of the obviously false documents and items of information about having essential meaning to get the credit or the grant, or deliberate non-information by an individual businessman or an official of the legal person to a creditor or a body which assigned the grant - are punished by the fine, or by the deprivation of the right to occupy the certain posts or to be engaged in the certain activity, or by the arrest for the term to six months, or by the restriction of freedom for the term to three years, or by the deprivation of freedom on the same term.

2.Actions mentioned in the first part of this article made with the purpose to get the state target credit or caused damage in the especially large size - are punished by the restriction of freedom for the term from two till five years or by the deprivation of freedom on the same term.

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