A Fashionable Scheme: The Belarusian Company Bringing Luxury Goods to Russia

In Lithuania, they discovered a scheme for the supply of sanctioned luxury clothing from Europe to Russia through Belarus. At the center of this scheme was the “Trading House Exporttorg”, associated with businessman Alexander Zaitsev, a former assistant to the eldest son of the self-proclaimed president...

A Fashionable Scheme: The Belarusian Company Bringing Luxury Goods to Russia

An intermediary linked to a businessman close to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko imports luxury goods to Russia by reporting artificially low prices in customs documents to circumvent sanctions, the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC) has found.