Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime

Son of businessman detained on his way to father's funeral
He is now in Minsk jail
17.01.2022
Belarus authorities on a hunt for 'dissent' in large companies
“Penitential” videos of detainees have been published online
12.12.2021
Minsk activist Yuliya Syamenchanka gets 14 days in jail, confinement conditions are appalling
In the course of Monday’s court hearing, Yuliya Syamenchanka, an activist of the Belarusian public association Zvyano, managed to reveal the details of her detention that took place on December 3, Tatsyana Hatsura-Yavorskaya, the director of the NGO and a human rights activist, said on Facebook.
07.12.2021
Political analyst Artsyom Shraibman's Telegram listed as extremist
The Belarusian authorities has declared political commentator Artsyom Shraibman’s Telegram channel extremist.
03.12.2021
Radio Liberty freelancer detained in Minsk, his apartment searched and equipment seized
The same day the telegram channel of the media was hacked
26.11.2021
Authorities prepare amendments to law seeking to revoke citizenship and seize property of Belarusians
They want to deprive even those who received their citizenship at birth
25.11.2021
BYPOL and Peramoha plan labeled 'extremist formation'
Subscribers are threatened with searches
09.11.2021
Pro-Lukashenka police accuse political prisoner Marfa Rabkova of running criminal anarchist organisation
The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case under Parts 1 and 2 of Article 285 of the Criminal Code over ‘establishiing an international criminal anarchist organisation which consists of a number of extremist groups banned in Belarus’, the notorious GUBAZiK/GUBOPiK (Main Department for Combatting Organised Crime and Corruption) reports on its official Telegram channel.
04.11.2021
‘Shrove Monday’: Detentions and searches in Homiel
At least eight people have been detained in the Belarusian city of Homiel on Monday, human rights activists report. Dissenters are apparently forced to tell their stories and show regret while the police are filming them.
25.10.2021
Belarusian MIA to create 'list of extremists'
Dissenters may be deported or stripped of their citizenship.
23.10.2021
Senior police officer: Belarusians ‘serving interests of West from abroad’ should be deprived of citizenship
On October 18, Vyachaslau Arlouski, the head of the notorious GUBAZiK/GUBOPiK (Main Department for Combatting Organised Crime and Corruption) came up with a proposal to add some clauses to this year’s amendments to the law on citizenship. The amendments came into force in June.
19.10.2021
Minsk: Writer Anatol Kudlasevich gets heavy fine for flag on balcony, his flat harshly raided
On September 29, Anatol Kudlasevich’s wife came home after work and saw that the apartment was turned upside down. What was more, her husband was absent.
30.09.2021