Investigations

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...

Last year the amount of belarusian oil products shipped through Estonia multiplied by three times. This was almost impossible to do amidst the European sanctions without manipulations with commodity codes. The scheme beneficiaries turned out to be those tightly connected with businessman Mikalai...

Belarus has been fighting the mediation business for a long time now and one of the main ways of dealing with the problem has become import substitution. The idea is to produce locally instead of buying things from abroad. However, the journalists of “Davaite Razbiratsia” found out what happened...

The journalists of “Davaite Razbiratsia” programme found out how Tiateryn started his business, how much he managed to make and why Lukashenka’s patronage isn’t necessarily the guarantee of success

Belarus Nuclear Power Plant is one of the most disputed sites. The quality of plant construction as well as its efficiency of operating the facility raises lots of questions

The fact that in 2018 belarusian oligarch Aliaksei Aleksin got in charge of the most profitable tobacco business line many people attributed with his close relationship with Aleksandr Lukashenko. In fact, as the journalists of the “Davaite razbiratsia” program found out, in that year Aleksin...

Every year Belarusian potassium fertilizers are exported for $2,5 bln, a huge part of which remains in Lithuania. Journalists of the “Davaite razbiratsia” program in cooperation with the Lithuanian Center “Siena” found out how such deals can be conducted at the expense of potential profit...

About 10 years ago Belarus authorities introduced a big telecommunication operator “Belarus Cloud Technologies”.The company partially belongs to anonymous offshore companies

In recent years businessmen close to Alexander Lukashenko were sanctioned by Europe in connection with making profits for the top authorities. Russian government wanted to impose sanctions for re-export of sanctioned goods. But our team “Davaite razbiratsia” found out that none of the sides...

The investigators of Davajcie Razbiracca (Let’s Get it Sorted Out) program found out, which Belarusian businesspersons gained the opportunity to make money on exploration of minerals in Zimbabwe

In May Belarusian automobile factory BelAZ signed a contract with Chili to sell 18 dump trucks. This is the biggest contract for the Zhodino plant with Latin America