Investigations

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

According to the BIC’s estimates, the indirect re-export of Belarusian wood to the EU through Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan brought some 30 million euros to its organisers

Anna is the only one from the Lukashenko family who has never been sanctioned. However, her inner circle includes people who are subject to international restrictions.

There is another group of "shadow diplomats", which is connected with the official Minsk

Belarus is among the top 20 countries with the largest number of current and former honorary consuls who have been embroiled in scandals or criminal cases

Businessman Yury Chyzh and his Lithuanian partner Vitold Tomaševskij pumped billions of dollars out of Belarus

The Belarusian Investigative Center has studied the Karić businesses’ financial reports, revealing significant money transfers across the border. Between 2008 and 2020, the Karics syphoned off over €170m to Cyprus as dividends

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

Our new investigation focuses on four Belarusians who, while being public servants and heads of state-owned enterprises, decided to buy real estate on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria

In 2020 the presidential suburb of Drazdy saw the inauguration of a school designed for the children of top government officials, security servicemen, prominent businessmen, but most importantly – Aleksandr Lukashenko’s own family.

Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, the Belarusian Investigative Center has identified around a dozen pro-Russian fighters

In our new investigation we shed light on the key person involved in Mr. Sheyman’s dirty side hustle – as well as matters of his heart

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.

The warm beaches of the United Arab Emirates have become quite a magnet for rich Belarusians for all the wrong reasons

In 2021-22 western sanctions were imposed on several Belarus regime-affiliated oligarchs – this should have curbed their enthusiasm

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