BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)
In this project a team of Belarusian investigative journalists reveal corruption schemes and top-level legislation abuse
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 Belarusian authorities dealing in petroleum products using unclear schemes.
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 16 million euros to its organisers
Anna is the only one from the Lukashenka 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
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 – Aliaksandr Lukashenka’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
