25 April 2003
District government official in Beryoza, Brest region, faces power abuse charge
The Beryoza District Prosecutor's Office, Brest region, on April 17 instituted criminal proceedings against a local government official.
Yevgeny Poznyak, head of the Beryoza District Executive Committee's capital construction department, faces a power abuse charge as a result of an inspection made by the Brest regional office of the interior ministry's Organized Crime and Corruption Prevention Department.
Mr. Poznyak allegedly ordered the building of a power transmission line to connect his weekend house near the village of Krugloye in the Beryoza district to the main power grid. According to investigators, Mr. Poznyak, who then served as first deputy chairman of the District
Executive Committee, never repaid the construction costs, which amounted to almost 1.13 million rubels. The money had been taken out of the district's power line construction budget.
As of Friday, Mr. Poznyak was not arrested and continued to serve in his position, according to an official at the Beryoza District Executive Committee. Earlier this week, the Brest regional government dismissed
Sergei Momotyuk from the post of chairman of the Drogichin District Executive Committee. On March 31, the Brest Regional Prosecutor's Office brought a power abuse charge against him. He allegedly ordered the chairman of a local collective farm to buy a country cottage owned by his son Aleksandr in the village of Detkovichi for 15,087,000
rubels (approx. $7,560). The order was obeyed although the price was almost two times the amount that would normally be paid for a cottage located in a remote rural area. Andrei Senkovets, first deputy chairman of the Committee, currently serves as acting chairman.
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