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Children's special operation. Who takes Ukrainian children to Belarus?
Investigations Children's special operation. Who takes Ukrainian children to Belarus?

Some children from Ukraine were taught to play hockey by former star Dzmitry Baskau. Another group was sent to watch a match with Lukashenko.

31/07 Read Article
Undercover of security forces. Who could make millions of dollars on the migration crisis at the EU border, which claimed dozens of lives
Investigations Undercover of security forces. Who could make millions of dollars on the migration crisis at the EU border, which claimed dozens of lives

A new migration crisis is brewing on the border between Belarus and the EU. This time, it is endorsed by Russia.

07/06 Read Article
Dirty play in a clean market. How Belarusian cleaners earned tens of millions of euros in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and why they are being tried in Latvia
Investigations Dirty play in a clean market. How Belarusian cleaners earned tens of millions of euros in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and why they are being tried in Latvia

A Latvian court is investigating a major financial scandal with a Belarusian link. The primary defendant in the case is businessman Eduard Apsit.

28/05 Read Article
A corrupt knight. Empire of Lukashenko-linked entrepreneur Zaytsev uses priest as business owners
Investigations A corrupt knight. Empire of Lukashenko-linked entrepreneur Zaytsev uses priest as business owners

The Belarusian entrepreneur is the first member of the Order of St Gregory the Great in the history of Belarus.

21/04 Read Article
Oil mystery. Lukashenko's $1.5 billion debt to Venezuela
Investigations Oil mystery. Lukashenko's $1.5 billion debt to Venezuela

We have a copy of a document dated September 2015 which was prepared for a session with the Belarusian Prime Minister. It indicates the Belarusian authorities did not intend to send the money to Venezuela.

12/04 Read Article
An Asian route to Europe. Belarus never stopped selling sanctioned plywood and pellets to the EU
Investigations An Asian route to Europe. Belarus never stopped selling sanctioned plywood and pellets to the EU

We found out how Belarusian timber floods EU markets via Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

03/04 Read Article
Sergei Teterin's new monopoly forces Belarusians to overpay for European chocolate
Investigations Sergei Teterin's new monopoly forces Belarusians to overpay for European chocolate

A source from the food industry in Belarus claims that it is Teterin’s company BelGlobalGarant that is actually involved in chocolate smuggling.

06/03 Read Article
How Belarusian fertilizer company get banned nitrogen into Europe through straw companies
Investigations How Belarusian fertilizer company get banned nitrogen into Europe through straw companies

Belarusian authorities are directly involved: one of the straw companies has been set up by the Hrodna District Executive Committee.

20/02 Read Article
Politician, fraudster, and businessman from Belarus kept money in Swiss bank
Investigations Politician, fraudster, and businessman from Belarus kept money in Swiss bank

One of the subjects of this investigation is a former member of parliament whose reported income was several times lower than the amount of money in his Swiss account. The second one is a businessman who has been jailed twice in different countries. The third one is a businessman close to the...

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Lukashenka's sanctioned «wallet» Shakutsin continues business in the EU in spite of sanctions
Investigations Lukashenka's sanctioned «wallet» Shakutsin continues business in the EU in spite of sanctions

As a rough estimate, it cost Belarusian taxpayers $100 million to run the business of the Shakutsin family.

27/01 Read Article
Varabei and his friends from European elites: what riches family of Lukashenka’s wallet has managed to preserve within the EU?
Investigations Varabei and his friends from European elites: what riches family of Lukashenka’s wallet has managed to preserve within the EU?

Over a five-year period, Mikalai Varabei’s family bought apartments and chalets in Austria and managed to shelter their holdings from western sanctions

27/09 Read Article
Lilia Lukashenko’s mate and oligarchs benefit from ‘Case of Orthopaedics’
Investigations Lilia Lukashenko’s mate and oligarchs benefit from ‘Case of Orthopaedics’

Now it became clear that the company’s beneficiaries are directly related to Mr. Lukashenko’s family, and that the same beneficiaries are building another medical centr.

12/07 Read Article
Unknown orthopaedic clinic gains from crackdown on private medicine
Investigations Unknown orthopaedic clinic gains from crackdown on private medicine

As the Ministry of Health is terminating licenses of popular private clinics Lode and A1, an unknown private clinic seems unfazed by the repressions

10/05 Read Article
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