Forgery Did Not Lead to Good

An addiction to alcohol led one resident of District M. to lose his tractor driver's license in 2009 when he was detained by traffic police while driving a collective farm tractor under the influence of alcohol.

An addiction to alcohol led one resident of District M. to lose his tractor driver's license in 2009 when he was detained by traffic police while driving a collective farm tractor under the influence of alcohol.

However, when the period of disqualification from driving vehicles ended, M. did not bother to retake the exams. To obtain a new driver's license, he decided to circumvent the law. In a conversation with a neighbor, he learned that the latter had his deceased father's tractor driver's license. Taking this license with him to work in the Russian Federation, M., for a fee, with the help of a "specialized" private firm, altered the deceased's documents by pasting his own photograph and entering his data.

Elated by the successful deal, M. began to use the forged official document, presenting it left and right.

Thus, in November 2015, M. got a job as a tractor driver at one of the agricultural enterprises in Chashniki District, presenting "his" driver's license to the HR department of the enterprise. Then, in September 2017, M. got a job as a tractor driver at an enterprise in Beshenkovichi District, and the employees of this enterprise had no doubts about the authenticity of the driver's license.

What it all ended with, said Ekaterina Kabachevskaya, Assistant Prosecutor of Beshenkovichi District:

Traffic police officers doubted the authenticity of the presented driver's license when they stopped M. at the end of September 2017 on the highway between two district centers. The unlucky "tractor driver" had to admit that the driver's license was fake.

By court verdict, M. was found guilty of using a knowingly forged document and was sentenced to 240 hours of community service with compulsory treatment for chronic alcoholism.