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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
Belarus is home to a multitude of casinos. And yet little tax from gambling is being collected by the state as business owners hide behind complex offshore corporate structures
As the EU keeps arresting Russian oligarchs’ yachts and villas, Mr. Mikhail Gutseriev, Aleksandr Lukashenko's friend, has been tucking away his assets from the West’s wrath. The latest insight by the Belarusian Investigative Center reveals how he has managed to transfer ownership of a range of...
Aleksandr Lukashenko often condemns real estate developers for making extreme gains. Yet, a new investigation by the Belarusian Investigative Center has revealed that Belarusian real estate prices are often inflated because Lukashenko himself distributes the best land to certain developers. As it...
Just over a week the belarusian wood industry has suffered twice. First it got hit by sanctions against the attack of russian forces on Ukraine. Then, according to the Belarus Investigative Centre, Belarus got stripped of a prestigious international certificate, which allowed Belarus on the premium...
“Belarusian Investigative Center” managed to find out, another cigarette manufacturer from Belarus might get huge profits from an “aborted transit” scheme. This is about Pavel Topouzidis, the chairman of the board of directors of “Tabak-Invest”, who is known as the co-owner of a...
In Belarus legislative amendments about public procurement are foreseen. Affiliated parties, who might collude and speculate on market gains during the procurement process, won’t be allowed to participate in bids. The programme “Davaite razbiratsia” found out what is indeed happening by the...
