Iryna Rybalka

TUT.BY deputy director, released

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 26 August 1970

Date of detention: 18 May 2021

Charges indicted:

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

Iryna Rybalka is TUT.BY deputy director.

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, Iryna Rybalka, deputy chief accountant of TUT.BY Maryia Novik, and chief accountant of TUT.BY Anzhela Asad 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.

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