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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 are the recipients of the national award “Free Word” from the Association of Journalists of Belarus in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. At "Free Word" 2021 BIC’s team also received first place for Analytics

BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)

We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)

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Investigations 31 March

"A truly talented businessman." How the confiscation of Amkodor became a golden parachute for Shackutin

Lukashenko’s associate kept the profits, while the state was left with a loss-making holding company and a billion-ruble debt.

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Investigations Indirectly and directly. How companies linked to Cyprus's former president helped Lukashenko’s bagman dodge EU sanctions

… and re-export Russian gasoline under the guise of solvents and diluents.

06/03 Read Article Read Article

Investigations Route recalculated. Companies linked to the entourage of Lukashenko’s associate sell sanctioned European cars to Russia

Despite tightened restrictions and the publication of investigations into the matter, the scheme remains in effect.

03/03 Read Article Read Article

Investigations Fourfold rise in Ukrainians caught fleeing to Belarus to avoid conscription

The BIC worked out how much it might cost to organise an escape.

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Investigations "Top-level service". For the last three years, former participants of the Russian "special military operation" have been taking holidays in Belarusian sanatoriums

We spoke to a Russian soldier who had fought in Ukraine and received treatment in Lepel upon his return from the war zone.

30 December 2025 Read Article

Investigations Austrian company agrees to supply sanctioned goods to Belarus in conversation with undercover investigators

The seller explained how to circumvent the ban via Armenia.

24 December 2025 Read Article

Investigations The thread of deception. How Grodno Azot sells polyamide to the EU, bypassing sanctions

The company also exports polyamide to Iran and to some Russian enterprises connected to Russia’s military industry.

23 December 2025 Read Article

Investigations Spray money. How Lukashenko’s “wallet” organised a cash grab at the border

The investigation focuses on a disinfection system that generates tens of thousands of rubles daily, even though it does not actually kill viruses or bacteria.

16 December 2025 Read Article

Investigations From enamel pots to kamikaze drones. BIC sheds light on the Belarusian “Lord of Russian Drones"

$1.12 billion — that’s how much his company received over the previous two years from contracts with Russian military organizations.

04 December 2025 Read Article

Investigations A mountain chalet: how companies linked to Belarusian elites are building a secret Russian residence, allegedly for Lukashenko

28 October 2025 Read Article

Investigations Production exchange. How Belarus and Russia trade sanctioned goods with each other

The BIC has revealed the entire chain of prohibited shipments from China to Belarus via Russia.

07 October 2025 Read Article

Investigations The Young Guard. How teenagers in Belarus are being groomed for a military future disguised as patriotic education

We spoke with mothers whose children are taught to shoot, encouraged to develop a sense of affinity with the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, and instructed on what it means to “be a man”.

04 October 2025 Read Article