Yauhen Basareuski: "the court minutes were evidently fabricated"
The Zhlobin member of
the Belarusian Leftist Party "Fair World" Yauhen
Basareuski, sentenced to three years of imprisonment by the Zhlobin
District Court for alleged abused of office powers, received a copy
of the minutes of the court sitting.
Mr. Basareuski states
that there is a huge number of contradictions and defects in the
minutes, unfavorable for the 66-year-old activist.
"I
faced facts that contradict my case almost on each page of the
minutes," says Yauhen Basareuski. "For instance, during the
investigation I repeatedly stated that I had addressed the Zhlobin
District Executive Committee in connection without our situation,
where is in the minutes it is stated that I didn't appeal to it. Or
take, for instance, words of a witness, the head of the financial
department of the executive committee: as he said at the trial, no
harm was inflicted to the state, there was just non-payment of
financial means due to the unprofitableness of our enterprise. These
words weren't included in this document. My last plea was not fully
reflected in the minutes either. That's why this document has
evidently been fabricated in order to prove my guilt.
On
Monday Yauhen Basareuski meets with his counsel in order to decided
how this documents can be attached to the cassation appeal, pending
at the Homel Region Court.
Bear in mind that on 7 December
2012 the civil and political activsit Yauhen Basareuski was sentenced
to 3 years with the determent of the sentence.
The court
proceedings against Mr. Basareuski started back in 2010, when he
tried to get nominated as a candidate from the "Fair World"
at the election to local Soviets. On the eve of the election the
State Control Committee conducted the communal assets bureau, headed
by Basareuski in 2004-2009, and found that the enterprise had
allegedly evaded from the payment of 50% of the rent tax, by which a
loss of more than 180 million rubles was inflicted to the state. Soon
a criminal case was brought against Mr. Basareuski and the accountant
of the enterprise Valiantsina Kastsiukevich. Thought the check-up of
the Ministry of Justice found no violations in Basareuski and
Kastsiukevich's actions, the judge Inna Sharshniova issued verdicts
of guilty to the both of them.