Minchanin wanted to sell the stolen phone, and donate the proceeds for the construction of the temple

A criminal case was sent to the court against a 50-year-old previously unconvicted citizen who is accused of committing theft, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency was told in the Frunze district prosecutor's office.

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At lunchtime, the defendant came shopping at the shopping center on the street. Kazimirovskaya. On the donation box for the construction of the temple, he noticed a mobile phone, which he quietly put in his pocket and left.

A few weeks later, police officers contacted him and seized the stolen property - it turned out that the gadget on the box was forgotten by a man who cashed money in a nearby ATM. Afterwards, he returned for it, but the phone, which cost 2,332 BYN, was never found.

A criminal case was subsequently opened against an unclean Minsk citizen, but he did not admit guilt. The defendant claims that he allegedly intended to sell the phone on a well-known online trading platform, and give the proceeds to the temple as a donation. But since the gadget was blocked, Minsk decided that no one would buy it, and planned to take it to the police, but because of his employment did not do it.

- The accused is married, has three adult children, works as a loader in a store, has not previously been brought to criminal responsibility, said Andrei Serbun, deputy prosecutor of the Frunze district. He was charged with secret theft of property (theft), that is, in committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code. The victim was not compensated for the damage, since he refused to take the phone seized from the accused due to damage.

A preventive measure was applied against the defendant in the form of a subscription not to leave and proper behavior.