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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)

Investigations

In this project a team of Belarusian investigative journalists reveal corruption schemes and top-level legislation abuse

Investigations

31 October 2022

How a secret Lithuanian partner helped Chyzh make billions in a solvent scheme

Businessman Yury Chyzh and his Lithuanian partner Vitold Tomaševskij pumped billions of dollars out of Belarus

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United Arab Emirates and Cyprus: top destinations for Lukashenka’s construction money

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

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Varabei and his friends from European elites: what riches family of Lukashenka’s wallet has managed to preserve within the EU?

Over a five-year period, Mikalai Varabei’s family bought apartments and chalets in Austria and managed to shelter their holdings from western sanctions

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Belarusian public servants buying up apartments in Bulgaria

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

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Exposed: Nikolai Lukashenko’s mother founded private grammar school

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 – Aleksandr Lukashenko’s own family.

30 August 2022 Read Article

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Belarus ex cops and criminals join Russia’s side in Ukraine

Belarusian Cyber-Partisans, the Belarusian Investigative Center has identified around a dozen pro-Russian fighters

09 August 2022 Read Article

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How arts graduate became henchman’s mistress

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

26 July 2022 Read Article

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Lilia Lukashenko’s mate and oligarchs benefit from ‘Case of Orthopaedics’

Now it became clear that the company’s beneficiaries are directly related to Mr. Lukashenko’s family, and that the same beneficiaries are building another medical centr.

12 July 2022 Read Article

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Prominent Belarusian businesspeople and celebrities buy up properties in Dubai

The warm beaches of the United Arab Emirates have become quite a magnet for rich Belarusians for all the wrong reasons

28 June 2022 Read Article

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How Belarus government oligarch schemes evolve under sanctions

In 2021-22 western sanctions were imposed on several Belarus regime-affiliated oligarchs – this should have curbed their enthusiasm

24 May 2022 Read Article

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Unknown orthopaedic clinic gains from crackdown on private medicine

As the Ministry of Health is terminating licenses of popular private clinics Lode and A1, an unknown private clinic seems unfazed by the repressions

10 May 2022 Read Article

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Criminals and Lukashenka’s ‘moneymen’ behind big gambling business in Belarus

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

26 April 2022 Read Article

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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...

12 April 2022 Read Article

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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...

29 March 2022 Read Article

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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...

04 March 2022 Read Article

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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