Minsk court fines entrepreneur Aliaksandr Makayeu

The Court of Minsk Maskouski District considered on December 27 the administrative charges brought against businessman Aliaksandr Makayeu. He was charged under Article 23.34, Para. 3 (“participation in an unauthorized mass event, repeated throughout the year”). The case was heard by Judge Yauhen Khatkevich.

The entrepreneur was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of 5 mln rubles.

Aliaksandr Makayeu’s car was stopped on December 1 during the marking of the anniversary of the Slutsk anti-Soviet uprising of 1920s. On December the police of  the town of Kopyl district detained Aliaksandr Makayeu in Minsk at the market "Rakauski Kirmash"; he was forced to provide explanations and later charged by a police major Shapashnikau.