We investigate corruption, uncover fake news and analyze the news agenda. The BIC is a member of the global network of investigative journalists.
Our journalists have received theHans Staiger Investigative Award from the International Center for Journalists; the Free Media Award from the ZEIT-Stiftung Bucerius and the Fritt Ord Foundation; and the Data Journalism Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Our Dubai Unlocked project was also shortlisted for the Sigma Awards.
Between 2018 and 2026, our journalists received 11 Belarusian Volnaye Slova Awards.
BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)
The owners of a tobacco empire on the US sanctions list and a businesswoman with ties to Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko are selling alcohol in Belarusian duty-free shops. Perhaps that will change in the summer of 2024.
Data from Eurostat, the EU statistical service, reveal a sharp increase in the number of migrants from Belarus following the initiation of mass political repression.
“Prigozhin would use Belarus as a transit country to reach Africa, where he has both military and economic business. Lukashenko seeks to develop economic relations with Africa as well”