Anzhela Asad
TUT.BY chief accountant, released
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 3 February 1973
Date of detention: 18 May 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 243 of the Criminal Code — Evasion of taxes and fees
Statement on the status of a political prisoner
Godparent: Claudia Raffelhüschen, Member of the German Bundestag
Anzhela Asad is the chief accountant 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 March 11, 2022, Anzhela Asad, deputy chief accountant of TUT.BY Maryia Novik, TUT.BY deputy director Iryna Rybalka were released from pre-trial detention center. However, they are all under a non-disclosure agreement and undertaking not to leave the country. The earlier charges were not dropped.
