“Our Niva” informsthat Yuras Melyashkevich was released from the Hrodna prison.
Melyashkevich is in charge of the “Padarosk Estate” case – an initiative to restore an old manor near Vaukavysk, which was financed by a businessman and philanthropist of Belarusian origin, Paval Podkarytov.
Together with Melyashkevich, the financial director of the estate is involved in the case Zmytyr Karabakh and an employee of the “Return” Foundation Sergei Makarevich. Makarevich’s release on bail was announced earlier, on April 12.
Melyashkevich was detained in Vaukavysk in October last year. Friends say he was released on bail by his parents.
To the director of PTUP “Mayontak Padarosk” Yuras Melyashkevich and the CFO Zmytri Karabakh were accused of non-payment of taxes and insurance contributions from the salaries of employees for almost 400,000 rubles.
Yuras Melyashkevich engaged in social and political activities since 1999. Since 2004, a member of the BNF Party, he was the secretary of the party commission on ecology and the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the commission on the protection of historical and cultural heritage. The son of Viktar Ryhoravich Melyashkevich, one of the veterans of the Belarusian People’s Front since the foundation of the movement.
Yury Melyashkevich was the deputy chairman of the public organization “BNF “Revival”, an activist of the “For Freedom!” movement. Recently, he was the deputy chairman of the “Belarusian Voluntary Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments”. During the purge of civil society, the organization was liquidated by the Supreme Court.