Decision to open an enforcement proceeding from 21 December 2015 and the ruling to arrest 18% share of the apartment from 4 January 2016, was made by the head of the sector №2 of the enforcement department Mikhail Gastela. Ales Bialiatski has appealed against it to the head of the department.
Having considered the complaint, Liudmila Kabychkina on 25 January has made a ruling that “grounds for granting or refusing the demands contained in A. Bialiatski’s complaint became irrelevant“.
In the first part of the decision Liudmila Kabychkina has elaborated on how “the grounds became irrelevant”. The official explains that the Court of Piershamaiski district (which sentenced Ales Bialiatski on 24 November 2011 to imprisonment with confiscation of property) withdrew an earlier writ of execution because of a “mistake”. On this basis, the department withdrew its decision to freeze Ales Bialiatski’s assets and on January 22 ordered to close the execution procedures.
Thus, the arrest of 18% share of the apartment, which is the home to Ales Bialiatski and his family, has been removed.
Just to remind, on 24 November 2011, the head of the human rights center Viasna Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to four and a half years’ imprisonment with property confiscation – including the flat in which the HRC Viasna was located. The orders of confiscation were appealed against in the Minsk Partyzanki district court on 4 July, 2012, and the arrest on a share of the flat where Ales Bialiatski lived with his family was removed.
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