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Lead: In January 202, exports of Belarusian gasoline to Ukraine amounted to 77 thousand tons 60% more than in January 2020. For comparison, in 2019, Belarus supplied the same amount of fuel to Ukraine in two months. We are talking about large sums. By the end of last year, a ton of Belarusian motor fuel cost Ukraine from $380 to $420, depending on the type. This means that the cost of all the gasoline supplied in January may exceed $30 million. But not all of this money goes to Naftan and Mazyr refineries. Part of it settles with the exporters. And here begins the most interesting part. ....
Lead: Even if Alyaksei Aleksin is put on the sanctions list, his business is not under immediate threat. One of the biggest Belarusian businessmen Alyaksei Aleksin almost ended up on the EU sanctions list. This is a case where almost counts. Aleksin is said to be one of those who were crossed off the list at the last minute. But the office of Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya and her associates may finally get the entrepreneur, who is sometimes called Lukashenka s purse , under sanctions. By all appearances, the businessman is well aware of it. Otherwise, how else to explain the fact that Aleksin decided to get ahead of the game and to prepare the landing spot? ....
In November 2019, BelSecurityGroup was registered in Belarus. No one noticed it, and, actually, they shouldn t have. But it was this firm - the first of the private ones - that Alyaksandr Lukashenka unexpectedly gave the right to carry, store and use service firearms and provide security services. True, by that time the owners had changed their long, unsound name to a short and catchy one - GardService. Lukashenka s decree came into force on August 20. Six days before the decree was enforced, the owner of the company changed its name and soon afterwards the director did the same. At the end of September the organization moved to another address. ....
Lead: The video surveillance system provider has much more connections with the Lukashenka regime than it may seem. Synesis holds a special place among the Belarusian companies that have come under the EU sanctions. An IT firm and resident of the Minsk-based Hi-Tech Park, the company has created the Kipod video surveillance platform, which the EU believes security forces in Belarus use to identifying protesters. But Synesis is connected with the Belarusian regime much more closely than simply as a developer of a video surveillance system commissioned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Euroradio has learned that a businessman close to Lukashenka is directly related to the company. ....