Hlubokaye Journalist Paid Off Fine With Coins Which Nuns Exchanged Him

This time, Dmitry Lupach has paid 36 basic units(882 rubles) with almost one thousand coins.

He had been fined by the Hlubokaye court for the material about the beating of the pensioner by policemen. In early August, journalist Dzmitry Lupach paid the fine, however, not to the Hlubokaye account, but to the Dokshytsy one, Belsat reports.

Dzmitry gathered all the documents, wrote a statement asking to transfer the money to the correct account. The money was transferred, but then the Dokshytsy district executive committee staff made a mistake. They apologized to the journalist and asked him to come and collect the money.

"I arrived, the money was returned to me at the treasurer's office, and I wanted to pay them in Hlubokaye. But the bailiffs told me that they had to make a check list for themselves and not to give me the money. Once they gave it to me, I was considered a person who missed the payment, and they charged me 10% extra," – the journalist says.

For three weeks, the journalist has been exchanging the sum of the fine for coins and today he’s taken it to the bank.

"Nuns exchanged them for me, they were counting the Sunday cash, well, I asked them. There were 257 two-ruble coins, 190 ruble coins, 238 fifty-kopeck coins, 130 twenty-kopeck coins, 80 ten-kopeck coins and 10 coins 5 kopecks each. There is still a handful of smaller ones, I keep them for the Braslau fine. I plan to collect more small coins for it," – Dzmitry Lupach says.

According to the freelancer, he did not cause a big shock at the bank's pay-office. The cashier brought the only bank’s machine and quite quickly coped with the counting.

On September 4, the journalist was fined 882 rubles for questioning passers-by in Braslau on July 5 about the detention of their former head Draneuski. This fine has not yet entered into legal force, since Dzmitry is going to appeal against it in the Vitsebsk regional court. The trial in Vitsebsk will be held on September 26.