Investigations

Lukashenko’s friend shelters his London mansions from European sanctions

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 companies to his brother while protecting other assets by making his son the ultimate beneficiary of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property in London. Mr. Gutseriev’s private villas and...

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Lukashenko is giving away millions in property as gifts to his amateur hockey teammates

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 turns out, partners at those firms also happen to be players at his own amateur hockey team, which helps them get benefits worth millions of dollars at the expense of the taxpayer

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Belarusian wood processing industry has been cut off from margin market

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 market

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With “Korona” at the head. How Pavel Topouzidis joined “fake transit” and built an empire

“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...

01 March 2022 Read Article

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From arms industry to school equipment: how Igor Medved became state procurement tsar

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...

22 February 2022 Read Article

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How Belarus bypasses sanctions with the help of oligarch Varabey’s partners

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...

31 January 2022 Read Article

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SHVEDish income. How Belarus procures medical equipment using the budget funds

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...

25 January 2022 Read Article

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How Tiateryn made a fortune thanks to his close relationship with Lukashenka

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

04 January 2022 Read Article

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Which defects were revealed after the Belarus Nuclear Power Plant was built and who is going to pay for it

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

21 December 2021 Read Article

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Having supplied the Presidential Security Service carpark, Aleksin got control over tobacco business

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...

29 November 2021 Read Article

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How Lithuanian businessmen make money on Belarus potassium

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...

24 November 2021 Read Article

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How come that arms business stood at the origins of telecommunication provider “beCloud”?

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

09 November 2021 Read Article

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Offshore in Orsha trying to circumvent sanctions and satisfy Kremlin

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...

26 October 2021 Read Article

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How Sheiman’s son mined gold in Africa

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

04 October 2021 Read Article

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Ex-deputy chief of Vilnius prison promotes the interests of BelAZ

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

28 September 2021 Read Article