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Former general director of Borisovdrev plant released

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Former general director of Borisovdrev plant released

Uladzimir Maltsau, a former general director of Borisovdrev wood-processing plant, was released from minimum security correctional facility No.15 in Mahilou under an amnesty on July 2.

Uladzimir Maltsau left the correctional facility at 16:00. His wife, father and brother were waiting for him outside the prison gates.

BelaPAN learnt that the decision to release Maltsau was taken by an amnesty commission on July 1 and approved by a prosecutor today.

The general director of Borisovdrev was detained in March 2014. In December, the Minsk regional court found him guilty of abuse of power and sentenced to 3 years in a medium security correctional facility. Maltsau was obliged to return the plant 1.906 billion rubles. His property was arrested to pay the debt.

In April 2015, the Supreme Court of Belarus changed the charge to a softer one and reduced the term of imprisonment to 2 years in a minimum security correctional facility. The charge of inflicting damage to Borisovdrev plant was dropped.

Maltsau was subject to two amnesties of 2014 and 2015. The term of imprisonment was reduced by one more year.

The case of Uladzimir Maltsau provoked a wide response. He was appointed general director of Borisovdrev by Aliaksandr Lukashenka in November 2013. Angry with the modernisation process, the ruler ordered to dismiss former director and appointed Uladzimir Maltsau, who had worked as deputy director for technical modernisation. Maltsau had managed the plant for only 18 months before his arrest in March 2014.

Asked if he found the sentence for the former director of Borisovdrev too strict, Lukashenka said at a press conference on January 29, 2015, that he was against severe punishment for Maltsau and promised to examine details of the criminal case.

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