Theft or embezzlement of property is the most common crime

Theft or secret misappropriation of property is currently the most common crime in our society. Secret misappropriation of property is understood as the intentional unlawful gratuitous seizure of another's property or right to property for mercenary motives through theft.

The desire for quick enrichment drives citizens to commit this crime. Perpetrators in this category of cases are typically individuals who are unemployed, lead an antisocial lifestyle, and abuse alcohol.

Unfortunately, such people treat the values of human labor and others' property with disregard, believing that if something is left unattended, it is a gift from fate. However, the greatest distress for such individuals is not public condemnation and moral norms, but the criminal liability provided for the misappropriation of property.

Criminal liability under Art. 205 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus arises upon the secret misappropriation of property from an individual in an amount exceeding 2 basic units, and exceeding 10 basic units from a legal entity.

The range of punishments for secret misappropriation of property, depending on the severity of the committed crime, is quite broad, from community service to 12 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.

Examples of misappropriation are diverse, and sometimes one is surprised by how thoughtless the perpetrators were, and as a result, the inevitability of criminal liability and punishment.

Thus, an unemployed Peter (name changed by the author), born in 1990, on a winter day, while intoxicated, in the premises of the cafe-club "Sobranie," secretly stole cash in the amount of 1,500,000 nondenominated rubles from a bill folder left unattended on the table, belonging to Sergey (name changed). He then fled the scene of the crime and disposed of the stolen property as he saw fit. He does not dispute the amount stolen and has compensated for the damage.

Peter's reckless act led him to the dock, where he was sentenced by the court of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Vitebsk.

a penalty in the form of 1 year and 6 months of restriction of liberty without being sent to an open-type correctional institution.

Assistant to the Vitebsk Transport Prosecutor
Yanchilenko Elena Vladimirovna