Names (Transliteration of Belarusian spelling) (Transliteration of Russian spelling)

Names (Belarusian spelling) (Russian spelling)

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‘26.

Ivan Yurievich SAKALOUSKI

Ivan Yurievich SOKOLOVSKI

Iван Юр’евіч САКАЛОЎСКI

Иван Юрьевич СОКОЛОВСКИЙ

Position(s): Director of the Akrestina detention centre, Minsk

DOB: 17.11.1979

Gender: male

In his capacity as Director of the Akrestina detention centre in Minsk, Ivan Sakalouski is responsible for the inhumane and degrading treatment, including torture, inflicted on citizens detained in that detention centre in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.

2.10.2020

108.

Sviatlana, Anatoleuna LYUBETSKAYA

Svetlana Anatolevna LYUBETSKAYA

Святлана Анатольеўна ЛЮБЕЦКАЯ

Светлана Анатольевна ЛЮБЕЦКАЯ

Position(s): Judge in the Constitutional Court of Belarus, former member of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, former Chairperson of the Standing Commission on Law

DOB: 3.6.1971

POB: USSR (now Ukraine)

Gender: female

Nationality: Belarusian

In her former position as Chairperson of the Parliamentary Commission on Law, Sviatlana Lyubetskaya was responsible for the adoption of the new Code of Administrative Infringements (entered into force on 1 March 2021) that authorises arbitrary arrests and imposed increased liability for participation in mass events, including for display of political symbols. Through these legislative activities, she is responsible for serious violations of human rights, including the right of peaceful assembly, and the repression of civil society and democratic opposition. These legislative activities also seriously undermine democracy and the rule of law in Belarus.

She remains active in the Lukashenko regime as a judge in the Constitutional Court, appointed by Alexander Lukashenko.

21.6.2021

112.

Siarhei Aliaksandravich GUSACHENKA

Sergey Alexandrovich GUSACHENKO

Сяргей Аляксандравiч ГУСАЧЭНКА

Сергей Александрович ГУСАЧЕНКО

Position(s): First Deputy Chairman of the National State Television and Radio Company (Belteleradio Company)

DOB: 5.11.1983

POB: Minsk, USSR (now Belarus)

Gender: male

Nationality: Belarusian

Tel. (office): + 375 (17) 369-90-15

In his position as the First Deputy Chairman of Belteleradio Company (the National State Television and Radio Company), author and host of weekly propaganda television show “Glavnyy efir”, Siarhei Gusachenka has been willingly providing the Belarusian public with false information about the outcome of elections, protests, repressions perpetrated by the state authorities and activities of the Lukashenka regime that facilitate illegal crossing of the external borders of the Union. He is directly responsible for the way in which the state television presents information about the situation in the country, thus lending support to the authorities including Lukashenka.

He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.

21.6.2021

125.

Mikhail Saferbakovich GUTSERIEV

Микаил (Михаил) Сафарбекович ГУЦЕРИЕВ

Position(s): Businessman, shareholder and chairman of the board of executives of Slavkali, chairman of the board of directors and shareholder of: JSC Mospromstroi, Industrial Financial Group Safmar JSC, LLC Proekt Grad

Member of the board of directors and shareholder of JSC NKNeftisa

DOB: 9.3.1958

POB: Akmolinsk, USSR (now Kazakhstan)

Gender: male

Nationality: Russian

Mikhail Gutseriev is a prominent Russian businessman, with business interests in Belarus in the sectors of energy, potash, hospitality and others. He is a long-time acquaintance of Aliaksandr Lukashenka and thanks to that association has accumulated significant wealth and influence among the political elite in Belarus. Safmar, a company which has been controlled by Gutseriev, was the only Russian oil firm that carried on supplying oil to Belarusian refineries during the energy crisis between Belarus and Russia in early 2020.

Gutseriev also supported Lukashenka in disputes with Russia over oil deliveries. Gutseriev has been the chairman of the board of directors of, and a shareholder in, the Slavkali company, which is building the Nezhinsky potassium chloride mining and processing plant based on the Starobinsky potash salt deposit near Lyuban. It is the largest investment in Belarus, worth USD 2 billion. Lukashenka promised to rename the town of Lyuban “Gutserievsk” in his honour.

His other businesses in Belarus have included fuelling stations and oil depots, a hotel, a business centre and an airport terminal in Minsk. Lukashenka also thanked Gutseriev for his financial contributions to charity and investments worth billions of dollars in Belarus.

Gutseriev also declared himself to be the owner of a residency which de facto belongs to Lukashenka, thus covering him up when journalists started to investigate Lukashenka’s assets. Gutseriev attended Lukashenka’s secret inauguration on 23 September 2020. In October 2020 Lukashenka and Gutseriev both appeared at the opening of an orthodox church, which the latter sponsored.

Gutseriev assisted with the acquisition of CT scanners for Belarus during the COVID-19 crisis. Mikhail Gutseriev is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.

21.6.2021

166.

Aleh Siarheevich HAIDUKEVICH

Oleg Sergeevich GAIDUKEVICH

Алег Сяргеевіч ГАЙДУКЕВIЧ

Олег Сергеевич ГАЙДУКЕВИЧ

Position(s): Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, member of the delegation of the National Assembly for contacts with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus

DOB: 26.3.1977

POB: Minsk, USSR (now Belarus)

Gender: male

Nationality: Belarusian

Personal identification: 3260377A081PB9

Passport number: MP2663333

Aleh Haidukevich is the Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Affairs in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, and member of the delegation of the National Assembly for contacts with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He made public statements, applauding diverting passenger flight FR4978 to Minsk on 23 May 2021. This politically motivated decision was done without proper justification and was aimed at arresting and detaining opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich and Sofia Sapega and is a form of repression against civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus.

Additionally, Aleh Haidukevich made public statements suggesting that Belarusian opposition leaders may be detained abroad and transported to Belarus “in a car trunk”, thus supporting the ongoing crackdown of security forces on Belarusian democratic opposition and journalists.

Aleh Haidukevich is the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus, which supports Lukashenka.

He is therefore supporting the Lukashenka regime.

21.6.2021

195.

Ivan Ivanavich GALAVATYI

Ivan Ivanovich GOLOVATY

Iван Iванавiч ГАЛАВАТЫ

Иван Иванович ГОЛОВАТЫЙ

Position(s): Former Director-General of the Open Joint Stock Company “Belaruskali”, Chairman of the supervisory board of JSC Belarussian Potash Company, First Deputy Director of Nedra Nezhin

Member of the Standing Committee of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus for Foreign Affairs and National Security

DOB: 15.6.1976

POB: Pogost Settlement, Soligorsk District, Minsk Province, Belarus

Gender: male

Nationality: Belarusian

Ivan Galavatyi is the former director general of the state-owned enterprise Belaruskali, which is a major source of revenue and foreign currency for the Lukashenka regime. He is a former member of the Council of the Republic and the National Assembly. He also holds multiple other high positions in Belarus and he has received multiple state awards, including from Lukashenka, during his career. He has been closely associated with Lukashenka and members of his family. Aliaksandr Lukashenka has proposed that Ivan Golovaty be sent to work as an ambassador to one of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. He is therefore benefitting from and supporting the Lukashenka regime.

As the former director general of Belaruskali, Ivan Galavatyi was directly involved in the Lukashenka regime’s relocation of Ukrainian children from occupied territories in collaboration with Russia. Therefore, Ivan Galavatyi supports the Lukashenka regime. He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as the First Deputy Director of Nedra Nezhin, a company reported to be a successor to Slavkali, a major potash producer in Belarus.

The employees of OJSC “Belaruskali” who took part in strikes and peaceful protests in the aftermath of the fraudulent presidential elections of August 2020 in Belarus, were deprived of premiums and laid off. Alexander Lukashenka himself personally threatened to replace the strikers with miners from Ukraine. Therefore, as the head of Belaruskali, Ivan Galavatyi is responsible for the repression of civil society.

3.6.2022

196.

Aliaksandr Uladzimirovich KARNIENKA

Alexander Vladimirovich KORNIENKO

Аляксандр Уладзiмiравiч КАРНIЕНКА

Александр Владимирович КОРНИЕНКО

Position(s): Former head of the Penal Colony IK-17 Shklov, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service

District Inspector, Department of Internal Affairs of the Slutsk District Executive Committee

DOB: 9.1.1979

Gender: male

Nationality: Belarusian

In his position as former head of Penal Colony IK-17 in Shklov, Aliaksandr Karnienka was responsible for the inhuman and degrading treatment, including torture, inflicted on the political prisoners and other citizens detained in that penal colony in the wake of the 2020 presidential election and the ensuing peaceful protests. He was the head of the penal colony at the time of the death of the political prisoner Vitold Ashurak in that penal colony on 21 May 2021, in unexplained circumstances.

He is therefore responsible for serious violations of human rights and the repression of civil society in Belarus.

He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as an official of the Slutsk District Executive Committee.

3.8.2023

258.

Viktar Arkadzievich SHAUTSOU

Viktor Arkadievich CHEVTSOV/ SHEVTSOV

Вiктар Аркадзьевiч ШАЎЦОЎ

Виктор Аркадьевич ШЕВЦОВ

Position(s): Businessman, investor

DOB: 5.12.1963

POB: Razumava village, Vitebsk region, Belarus

Nationality: Belarusian

Gender: male

Passport number: MP4572331, issued on 12.2.2021

Personal ID: 3051263A036PB7

Viktar Shautsou is a businessman with business interests in Belarus.

In his role as honorary consul of the Philippines in Belarus, he is supporting the Lukashenka regime. Furthermore, he is benefitting from the regime, through his involvement in Reshenie Bank, which in turn has interests in and is involved in the Dudutki museum complex, which is benefitting from the Belarussian state budget.

Therefore, Viktar Shautsou is supporting and benefitting from the Lukashenka regime.

5.8.2024

260.

Anton Genadzevich DUDAL

Anton Gennadievich DUDAL

Антон Генадзевіч ДУДАЛЬ

Антон Геннадьевич ДУДАЛЬ

Position(s):Former judge of the court of the Bobruisk region and the city of Bobruisk, Chairman of the Kirovsky District Court

Nationality: Belarusian

DOB: 11.8.1986

Gender: male

Personal ID: 3110886M079PB3

Anton Dudal was a judge who served in the court of the Bobruisk district and the city of Bobruisk. He was appointed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka in 2019. He has issued politically motivated sentences, including against citizens of Belarus who voiced their opinions against the President. He sentenced a citizen for acting in self-defence against law-enforcement brutality. He transferred Andrey Sachevko to prison in Mahiliou.

Anton Dudal is therefore responsible for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition.

He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as the Chairman of Kirovsky District Court.

5.8.2024

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Mikalai Vasilievich SIARHEEVICH

Nikolai Vasilievich SERGEEVICH

Мікалай Васільевіч СЯРГЕЕВIЧ

Николай Васильевич СЕРГЕЕВИЧ

Position(s): Former judge of the Zhlobinsky District Court of the Gomel Region, Chairman of the Chechersky District Court

Nationality: Belarusian

DOB: 22.8.1983

Gender: male

Personal ID: 3220883H026PB7

Mikalai Siarheevich was a Belarusian judge who served in the Zhlobinsky District Court of the Gomel Region He was appointed by Aliaksandr Lukashenka. He has issued politically motivated sentences against citizens of Belarus who voiced their opinions against the fraudulent presidential elections of 2020, including participants in the Zhlobin protests.

Mikalai Siarheevich is therefore responsible for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition.

He remains active in the Lukashenka regime as the Chairman of Chechersky District Court.

5.8.2024’