ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the corruption cases which can be recognized as scandals and highlights outcomes and policy changes arising from these events. It made to trace the link between patterns of corruption behaviour and legal aspects of their consequences regarding governance. The chapter defines corruption scandals in Belarus and describes their patterns. It explores consequences of corruption cases and causation with the primary focus on statements of high-ranking public officials and legal acts adopted, amended or abolished. The chapter shows that corruption scandals involve different types of public officials in public and private sectors. Consequences of corruption scandals can be different: political, legal, economic, and so on. They can be caused by a scandal or by a succession of corruption events. To detect the consequences, it is necessary to determine that consequences exist and to prove causation between scandals and consequences.
