Alexey is 37 years old. He is from Molodechno. As reported on his Facebook page, in 2020 the man moved to the position of financial director of the Minsk Watch Plant, which produces watches under the Luch brand.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the man posted information of an extremist nature on his page, as well as information that he transferred money to an organization recognized as extremist.
EPAM employee. It is known that Andrei was searched, the reason for the detention was supposedly donations to aid funds.
Andrei was kept for 2 months in a pre-trial detention center, after which the case was closed , since there was no evidence of his guilt, and he was released.
Nikolai graduated from the Physics Department of BSU, after university he went to work for InterVelopers, which soon began collaborating with Wargaming. Since 2002, Nikolai began managing business development in the company and still holds this position. The businessman, according to CSE, owns about 17% of Wargaming shares. Yezhednevnik traditionally included him in the list of the most influential Belarusian businessmen - in the 2021 rating, he took 18th place.
Propaganda films claim he made “dozens of cryptocurrency transfers” worth “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to various causes deemed extremist.
Now Katselapov is free and abroad, so a special case has been opened against him.
Trial outcome 08.09.2025
13 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 50000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
Sergei, an employee of the Värtanne Foundation, was detained at his home on the morning of November 4, 2022, following a search. After nearly five months in custody, he was released (reportedly on bail). Details of his case remain virtually unknown.
In March 2024, Sergei was convicted under the article "Financing the activities of an extremist group" and sentenced to restricted freedom with placement in an open-type institution.
According to human rights activists, he was released in early July 2025, having fully served his sentence.
As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.
Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."
Trial outcome 14.06.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to pro-government telegram channels, 45-year-old Alexander, the chief engineer of the Milkavita plant, “tried to disrupt the republican referendum,” and also sent money to the BySol fund.
He was detained on December 10 and sentenced to administrative arrest. But after his release, he was not released. It is known that the security forces beat him.
After his arrest, a "repentant video" appeared on pro-government channels, in which he said that he allegedly passed on information related to his professional activities to third parties. But the company then stated that Nikolai did not have access to client data.
The trial was held behind closed doors, but it became known that Nikolai Bredelev was found not guilty under Part 2 of Article 424 of the Criminal Code (Abuse of power or official authority) and acquitted due to lack of evidence of participation in the commission of a crime.
He was accused of providing funds to deliberately support the activities of an extremist group (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code) — blogger Anton Motolko. Motolko denied this accusation.
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