The chief forester was sent to prison, the senator after her release was sent to a factory. How Lukashenka fires people close to him

2023-11-28 16:56:23

Igor Brillo He is 51 years old, a native of Borisov, has a PhD in agricultural sciences and a veterinary diploma. First, he worked as a veterinarian in Barysau, then he was the chief veterinary doctor there. Since 2013, Brillo held the position of Deputy Minister of Agriculture, and from 2022 to July 2023, he was already a minister in this department.

Igor Brillo is third from the left. Photo – president.gov.by.

Brillo also worked for some time as a veterinarian at the Barysau Plant. Genadz Skitov, the head of “Babushkina Krinka”, who is now detained in the high-profile “milk case”, was the head of the company at that time. Allegedly, he sold products to Russia at low prices through a gasket company. Brilo at that time was working in high positions in the Ministry of Agriculture.

“Nasha Niva” with reference to its sources informs that Ihar Brillo was not only removed from his post, but also arrested, and he himself is currently in the KGB pre-trial detention center. This information was not officially confirmed.

We tell you which of the people close to him Lukashenka fired recently and what happened to them next.

Curator of KGB work

Vladimir Archakov

Last year, in August, Lukashenka fired the deputy state secretary of the Security Council Vladimir Archakov. In the Security Council, he was the curator of the work of the KGB, he also developed the Information Security Concept of Belarus, which was approved in 2019.

Vladimir Archakov has the rank of major general, he was 55 years old before he was removed from his post, that is, he could continue to hold it only after the relevant decree of Lukashenka. Such decrees are not uncommon, but in the case of Archakov it was not given.

Alyaksandr Nevyarovskyi was then appointed to Archakov’s place. It is not known what Archakov himself is doing now.

Chief forester

The third from the left is Vitali Drozha

In May last year, the Minister of Forestry lost his post Vital Yeast. The official reason is “an act incompatible with public service.”

And already in January of this year, Vitaly Drozha was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in prison for a particularly large bribe. According to the version of the investigation, Drozha took a bribe from a representative of a foreign company, from which the department later purchased equipment.

Now the Ministry of Forestry is headed by Aleksandar Kulik. And Vitaly Drozhzha was released already in September and headed one of the divisions of the National Park “Bialoveskaya Pushcha”.

Lukashenka’s security

Andrey Utyurin in court. Archive photo

Andrei Utyurin, deputy state secretary of the Security Council and former head of Lukashenka’s security service, was detained while receiving a bribe of 148.6 thousand dollars from a Russian commercial structure. Such information was officially distributed and announced during the trial. In July 2020, Utyurin was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Lukashenka’s former bodyguard is still behind bars. Former police prisoners mentioned him in their stories.

Resignations in the General Staff

Andrey Paseka

In December 2019, by special order of the head of the Ministry of Defense, Raukov was dismissed from the post of deputy chief of the General Staff Andrei Pasek.

“On the twenty-third of December, the Minister of Defense signed an order to dismiss Colonel Paseka in connection with the commission of an offense provided for in the military service contract as a reason for his early termination,” the Ministry of Defense reported at the time.

Then the military commander’s office conducted an inspection. It was not reported how it ended.

Detention of senators

Anna Shareyka, 2016.

In 2014, in Belarus, immunity was revoked and two members of the Council of the Republic were immediately detained – the manager of the Vitebsk broiler poultry factory Anna Shareyka and a businessman from Mogilev Vitaly Kastagorov.

Vitaly Kastagorov

The latter compensated the losses and was released from prison under house arrest. There was no information about his trial. In 2016, Anna Shareika was found guilty of abuse of official powers, but was released in the courtroom. In Šarejka’s case, her lover, Lithuanian businessman Valdemaras Norkus, was also convicted. After the release, they got married.

In 2019, already Anna Norkus was recognized as “person of the year of Vitebsk region – 2018”. She works as the manager of the Vitebsk broiler poultry factory.