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With this publication, BIC launches a debate on the limits of cooperation between civil society organizations and businessmen whose activities are being questioned by European law enforcement agencies and others.
A new migration crisis is brewing on the border between Belarus and the EU. This time, it is endorsed by Russia.
A Latvian court is investigating a major financial scandal with a Belarusian link. The primary defendant in the case is businessman Eduard Apsit.
The Belarusian entrepreneur is the first member of the Order of St Gregory the Great in the history of Belarus.
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.
We found out how Belarusian timber floods EU markets via Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
A source from the food industry in Belarus claims that it is Teterin’s company BelGlobalGarant that is actually involved in chocolate smuggling.
BIC head Stanislau Ivashkevich believes that chances are high that the document is authoritative.
Belarusian authorities are directly involved: one of the straw companies has been set up by the Hrodna District Executive Committee.
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...
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
