Drug-addicted Minsk for the second time in six months was convicted of forging a recipe

The sentence was handed down to a 40-year-old citizen who was accused of forging and using a deliberately forged document, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency was told in the Central District Prosecutor’s Office.

The accused is registered in the narcological clinic due to dependence on prohibited substances. One day she arrived there and found an unfilled prescription form under the bench with the doctor's signature and seal. It was obvious that he was fake, but the Minskchanka did not stop. The figure filled it, making the name of eye drops, which are released strictly by prescription. Drug addicts use this drug inappropriately to achieve euphoria.

Then the attacker went to the pharmacy for pr. Winners. Looking at the form, the vigilant pharmacist doubted its authenticity and called the clinic to check whether the doctor who wrote the prescription worked there. Her suspicions were confirmed.

Smelling something wrong, the Minsk woman left. The pharmacist reported the incident to the police. The suspect was detained, another criminal case was opened against her. The citizen fully admitted her guilt, repented of what she had done.

- The accused is not officially employed anywhere, married, dependent has a young son, in March 2026 was brought to criminal responsibility for committing a similar crime, said senior assistant prosecutor of the Central district Andrey Nikolsky. The court found her guilty of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 380 of the Criminal Code (“forgery, manufacture, use or sale of forged documents, stamps, seals, forms”), and, taking into account the previous sentence, imposed a final punishment in the form of one year of restriction of freedom without sending to an open-type correctional institution. In addition, the accused must undergo compulsory drug treatment.