On liability for evasion of enforcement documents

When it comes to restoring the violated rights of citizens and legal entities, state assistance, provided by bailiffs through compelling debtors to pay money, to perform certain actions, or to refrain from performing them, is often required.

The legislation provides for the debtor's obligation under an enforcement document to promptly (within 3 working days) provide the bailiff with information about changes in their place of residence. In addition to this, a debtor for alimony is also obliged to report changes in their place of work and additional income to the enforcement authority within the same period.

Often, negligent debtors, unwilling to part with money and fulfill their civil, family, and other obligations, do not fulfill these duties. Such an attitude cannot go unnoticed and unpunished. For failure to inform the bailiff or for providing knowingly false information about changes in place of work or residence (place of stay), as well as about additional income, administrative liability is provided for under Part 1 of Article 25.9 of the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses, with penalties up to administrative arrest.

Therefore, if the claimant is aware of such unlawful actions by the debtor, they can inform the bailiff by submitting an application to bring the offender to administrative responsibility and providing specific information about the debtor's new place of work, their additional income, or changes in their place of residence.

In turn, if such facts are revealed during supervisory activities by prosecutors regarding persons evading the fulfillment of their obligations, enforcement authorities will be instructed to prepare cases of administrative offenses.

 Prosecutor of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office for Supervision of Legislation Compliance by Criminal Enforcement System and Enforcement Bodies D.V. Ploskun.