Most likely, Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak would go under article 233 of the Criminal code for illegal business activities, says Valery Tsepkalo. He offers this article of the code to cancel.
HTP Director, Valery Tsepkalo in an interview with the newspaper “Sovetskaya Belorussia” has advocated “civilized approach” in resolving disputes between the state and entrepreneurs.
“In respect of economic entities did not look approaches that apply to murderers, terrorists, robbers, drug dealers and other antisocial elements. After all, men not only not a danger to society, but on the contrary – create jobs and promote economic growth,” – said Valery Tsepkalo.
Director of the HTP administration said that in developed countries, cases involving the payment of taxes, through administrative, not criminal code. The criminal aspect is necessary in the most extreme case, when all have been exhausted to resolve the issue within the framework of civil law relations.
Moreover, Valery Tsepkalo believes that Belarusian criminal law, exclude liability for illegal entrepreneurial activity (except for medical-related, financial related to the production of counterfeit money, the construction of the various pyramid schemes and the like).
Because the legislation already has administrative responsibility for the activities without registering. “I think that the article in the Penal code remained as a relic of the Soviet economy, when they could be only state-owned enterprises. And if someone decides to do, say, sewing denim suits (they were called “tsehoviki”), its activity was characterized as illegal, he was arrested and had to serve a long term in prison.”
Director OEM’m sure that now the time is different. “No private business is impossible to imagine a modern economy. And without the right people to do something (hence the business), to dare, to try the impossible development.
