corruption

Pricey medicine, secret victims, nepotism. Belarus fight against Coronavirus

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?

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

EU is still doubtful

The investigation department of the State Security Committee (KGB) has completed a preliminary investigation into a criminal case against Belgazprombank top managers, including the might-have-been presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka.

According to the OCCRP, the Azeri authorities paid foreign politicians bribes amounting to millions of dollars. Why did Baku require Western sympathies?

On March 10, a high-profile corruption trial started in a court in Minsk. Andrey Utsyuryn, a former deputy secretary of state of Belarus’ Security Council, is one of the defendants. He had previously headed Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s Security Service for nearly eight years.

On February 25, Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of Uzbekistan’s late president, asked incumbent leader Shavkat Mirziyoyaev to release her from prison in exchange for her assets.

A new corruption scandal has recently broken out in Belarus: sugar factories’ management is allegedly involved in corruption schemes. This is another yet story of bribery-related arrests in the last years. The number of corruption crimes reported by the prosecutor general has been significantly growing. Reducing corruption in Belarus requires systematic liberalization and democratic reforms rather than strengthening Lukashenka’s image of an anti-corruption fighter.