28 May 2003
Auditors report abuses at mining enterprise in Brest region
Prosecutors brought criminal charges against Viktor Telkov, director of the state-run mining enterprise Granit in the town of Mikashevichi, Brest region, following a large-scale audit by the State Control Committee.
The auditors established that Granit had sold 99,000 tons of crushed stone to Lithuania's Trimel Securities Inc. without reaching a preliminary agreement on the terms and conditions of payment as required by regulations.
The press office of the State Control Committee said that the deals had caused losses of 935.5 million rubels. The Committee said that the management had ignored regulations that limited terms of payment in export transactions, bought oil without a license, sold sand to a Russian company at an unreasonably low price, and paid another Russian company too much for two heavy-duty trucks.
The State Control Committee imposed fines totaling 266,000 Russian rubles and 338 million Belarusian rubels on Granit, and Mr. Telkov was sacked.
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