Minchanin said to the police that he was the victim of fraudsters and extortionists, and as a result he received a criminal record

A 22-year-old previously unconvicted citizen was sentenced, who was accused of knowingly false denunciation, the Minsk-Novosti correspondent was told in the prosecutor's office of the Pervomaysky district.

In March, a young man approached the Pervomaysk police department and reported that strangers, threatening him and his family with violence, forced him to issue loans and microloans totaling 30 thousand BYN. After the attackers ordered to hide the money in a cache on the street. Romanovskaya Sloboda. It is worth noting that, accepting the statement, the policemen under the signature warned the Minsk citizen about the responsibility for knowingly false denunciation, but he continued to insist on his own.

Subsequently, the operatives established that the applicant did not transfer any money to anyone, he and his relatives were not threatened. It turned out that the young man was fond of gambling and it was for these purposes that he issued loans and microloans.

Upon learning of his son’s debts, his mother wondered why he needed the money. A resourceful Minsk citizen came up with a story about being the victim of scammers and extortionists. Believing him, the mother insisted that her son immediately report the incident to the police.

When the truth was revealed, a criminal case was opened against the young man. In court, he fully admitted guilt, repented of what he had done.

- The accused is single, has a secondary education, is not officially employed anywhere, has not previously been brought to criminal responsibility, commented Kristina Prishchepova, assistant prosecutor of the Pervomaysky district, who spoke in the criminal case as a state prosecutor. The court found him guilty of knowingly false denunciation of a crime, combined with the charge of a serious and especially grave crime, and on the basis of Part 2 of Article 400 of the Criminal Code imposed a punishment of two years of restriction of freedom without sending him to an open-type correctional institution.

The sentence has not come into force, can be appealed and challenged in accordance with the procedure established by law.