Four leaders of Belarusian IT company PandaDoc were arrested after protesters



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Its founder, Mikita Mikada, has expressed her support for protesters in the country for almost a month.

On Friday, “it turned out that retroactive criminal proceedings had been initiated” for the large-scale theft, the company said in a statement.

“Employees are accused of taking more than 107,000 people as a group of individuals using their official position. Belarusian rubles (more than 34 thousand euros) from the budget, to the detriment of the state. The measure of preventive detention was 2 months of detention ”, He added.

PandaDoc said the accusation was “completely false and unfounded”.

“All the activities of the company were carried out in full compliance with the law, which is confirmed by repeated international audits and inspections,” says the company.

Julija Šardyka, chief accountant, Dzmitryjus Rabcevičius, the director, Viktaras Kuvšinavas, product manager, and Vladzislav Michalap, human resources manager, were reportedly arrested.

PandaDoc said the company’s Minsk office was searched on September 2.

“The office search blocked more than 20 employees, seven of whom were detained for questioning. With some employees [pareigūnai] He came to the house, made a search and got them out of there. Over the next two days, employees from the Financial Investigation Department interviewed more than 100 company employees, ”reported PandaDoc.

“During this time, lawyers were not allowed to enter the detained employees, no action was taken,” the company says.

PandaDoc sees the actions of force structures as repression.

The company has also stated that it is ready to close its office in Belarus and start developing an alternative to the Hi-Tech Park abroad.

The company’s lawyer, Anton Hashinski, told Interfax that the case should be referred to the Attorney General’s Office next week.

“In the future, the case is likely to go to the Investigation Commission, which will decide whether to prosecute or not,” he added.

The lawyer regretted that “the practice of recent days has shown that complaints are made without motivation, without indicating that concrete measures have been taken -as a procedure to leave. [asmenis] in custody “.

“The defense plans to appeal against the illegal actions of the officials of the Financial Investigation Department, as well as the preventive detention measure,” Hašinskis said.

Mikada, the founder of PandaDoc, supported the protesters in Belarus and offered help to force officials who wanted to leave law enforcement.

PandaDoc has offices in three countries: Belarus, the United States and the Philippines. The company develops solutions for working with digital documents.

Belarus has been the target of protests since the presidential elections on August 9, announced by the authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western countries consider these elections to be rigged.

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