Bogoljub and Dragomir Karic, once close to Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, present themselves as pioneers of capitalism in Eastern Europe and promoters of democracy. Yet they built their fortune cozying up to authoritarian figures and may face sanctions for ties to Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus.
Belarusian opposition figure Maryya Kalesnikava could be sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges that the U.S. State Department described as "an outrage." Kalesnikava is one of several opposition leaders facing jail or other forms of persecution from Alyaksandr Lukashenka's forces.
On May 5,
Valer Tsapkala posted a 20-minute video on the YouTube channel with the title “Lukashenko steals money from Belarusians”, in which the ex-presidential contender talks about the “gray schemes” associated with the Belarusian company beCloud, which provides data center services, Euroradio reports.
Valer Tsapkala claims that the Belarusian Cloud Technologies JLLC - beCloud - has a “monopoly right to allocate the resources of all state organizations and institutions”. This supposedly allows the company to accumulate impressive funds, and withdraw them to private accounts.
“The Belarusian Cloud Technologies JLLC is directly subordinate to the OAC [Operational-Analytical Center under Lukashenka - edit.], which is supervised by one of his [Lukashenka - edit.] children,” Tsapkala says.