Document forgery

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a criminal when they commit a crime? Surely, yes, and more than once. But no psychologist has been able to fully understand this issue, often it is, of course, greed, the desire for revenge for a fate that, in his opinion, has failed, and many other motives. But when a person unlawfully seizes someone else's documents, what guides them, maybe they want to avoid responsibility for a previously committed crime, or maybe they want to receive benefits they have never received?

The criminal case considered in the court of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Vitebsk, accusing Rostislav Shmonder (surname and name changed by the author), will help us find an answer to this question.

Aimlessly spending his life, drinking alcohol and having no permanent place of residence, Rostislav, previously convicted, wandered to his friend's place. Having bought more than one bottle of alcohol, the friends began to relax. At one point, Rostislav was called by his friend and asked to come to Polotsk so that he could return a debt, as the alcohol was running out. Rostislav got ready and, taking his friend's disability certificate for group 3, which, by the way, exempted him from paying for travel, went to the bus stop, where he successfully boarded bus No. 5 and drove to Polotsk. Perhaps due to the personal inattention of the conductor or indifference to the performance of his duties, the conductor did not notice that the certificate belonged to a completely different person. Rostislav was lucky on all subsequent occasions: when he returned from Polotsk to Novopolotsk to his friend, and when he took a diesel train to Vitebsk. Everywhere he was provided with free travel. The stumbling block was his detention at the railway station in Vitebsk by police officers to verify his identity. Rostislav decided that the police officers would also not notice anything, like the conductors and the ticket seller, but fate played a cruel trick on him, and his deception was revealed. The discrepancy between the person in the photograph and the detained Rostislav and his

were escorted to the police department to establish his identity.

By his intentional actions, Rostislav committed a crime provided for by Part 1 of Article 380 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, on the grounds of: forgery of another official document granting rights, for the purpose of using such a document by the perpetrator himself, use of a knowingly false document.

In the courtroom, Rostislav did not deny his guilt in the committed crime and repented of his actions.

By the verdict of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Vitebsk, he was sentenced to 240 hours of community service. In accordance with Article 107 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, he was subjected to compulsory treatment for alcoholism.

Assistant of the Vitebsk Transport Prosecutor V.O. Shevernovskaya