Investigations

Who is the real organisator? Who controls the flow of illegal immigrants? In whose hands have real people become a weapon and in whose – goods? How much have smugglers made this year? And how much have Belarus authorities earned?

Earlier in 2021 Belarus officials reported about the recent reforms in the energy sector

Who and how cherry-picks the political decisions between Kiev, Moscow and Minsk? In our new article we present a joint investigation conducted with the help of the famous Ukranian programme “Schemes”

Final snatch – this is how a well-known analyst Sergei Chalyi described the latest actions of the authorities on sharing a piece between businessmen being in tight connection with them. How true are these facts and how does it happen in reality? On what scale do the laundry schemes operate? Where does the money go and what was the authorities’ reaction to our investigation? In this article we summarise another year of our investigative journalism, bringing separate episodes together into a full story.

Who and how makes money off public overpayments for fake Belarusian medicines?

Revenue from cigarette sales goes to UAE offshores. How Belarusian oligarchs’ illegal tobacco business works. Investigation BelsatTV together with the Lithuanian investigative portal Siena.lt and the International Center for Investigation of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP)

Serbian businessmen Karić have changed beneficiaries in their Belarusian projects. As we learned through the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), «Emirates Blue Sky», «Dubai Water Front» and «Dana Astra» were previously linked to Dana Holdings Limited with the office in Nicosia through a network of Cypriot offshore companies. Since the beginning of last December, the ultimate owner of the assets has been the Emirati company Enterprise Development Holding Limited, which is backed by Mustafa Al Tobgi. This person was the Managing Director of the Dana Holdings group of companies.

How the Ministry of Health withdraws budget money through businessmen close to the leadership

Mikalai Varabei is perhaps the only private supplier of oil products in Belarus

Globalcustom-Management associated with the Presidential Affairs Management (the PAM)

How do businessmen close to Lukashenko move millions of dollars offshore and avoid EU sanctions?

The Kraken of Corruption