30 cows and 2 horses confiscated from a farmer in the Pruzhany district
During the sitting of the district
authorities with the participation of the head of law-enforcement
agencies (the head of the Pruzhany District Police Department and the
district prosecutor), held at the end of 2012, it was decided to
deprive Vasil Saltrukovich, a farmer from the village of Liakhi, of
30 cows and 2 horses.
As it was written in the protocol of the
sitting, his animals present a danger for the villages, like homeless
dogs and cats. That's why the authorities ruled that the cows were to
be caught and taken to the slaughterhouse of the Pruzhany consumer
society. The protocol was signed of all present officials except for
the district prosecutor Mikhail Zaparoshchanka.
When the
farmer applied to the police concerning the theft of 32 heads of
cattle, the head of the police Dzmitry Nekhayeu answered that they
had been caught as homeless and proposed Saltrukovich to go to court
in the case of disagreement.
"This is already the second
time my cattle is confiscated", says Vasil Saltrukovich. "During
the first time, they took away 5 animals for pasturing on other
people's fields. However, I was sentenced to pay a fine of 13 million
rubles for the damage, whereas a cow costs about 20 million
rubles."
Nobody returned the cost of the confiscated
animals to the farmer. He thinks that the same will happen this time.
After the second confiscation, he is left with an ill bull, cow and
cowling, and a horse by which the farmer rode during the so-called
"entrapment" of his herd.
Now he intends to appeal
the unlawful confiscation at the General Prosecutor's Office.
