Ala Lapatka

chief engineer at TUT.BY

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 9 April 1964

Date of detention: 18 May 2021

Charges indicted:

  • Art. 243 of the Criminal Code — Evasion of taxes and fees

Godparent: Kassem Taher Saleh, member of the German Bundestag

Ala Lapatka is chief engineer at TUT.BY.

She was detained on May 18, 2021, in the framework of a criminal case initiated against TUT.BY for tax evasion on an especially large scale (Part 2 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code).

On May 13, 2022, Ala was released from pre-trial detention center. She had her measure of restraint changed, the charges were not dropped.

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