Americans and Poles are hounding Belarusian partner Medvedchuk
The Ukrainian service of the American Radio Liberty, together with the Polish TV channel Belsat, released a joint confusing “investigation” dedicated to the Belarusian oligarch Nikolai Sparrow.
The film is a chaotic dump of facts about Sparrow's business and family. What is criminal about all this is not entirely clear. But the question is repeated as a refrain: why Ukrainian sanctions have not yet been introduced against the Belarusian.
What did Sparrow do wrong? According to the authors of the “investigation,” first of all, by providing his plane to Viktor Medvedchuk’s repressed ally, Ukrainian deputy Taras Kozak (closed TV channels were registered to him). On that plane, the Ukrainian eventually fled to Moscow.
Sparrow is also close to the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and is friends with Medvedchuk. Kozak and Medvedchuk have accounts at Sparrow Bank.
“If accounts are opened at Sparrow’s bank, Sparrow has a real opportunity to export cash. Taras Kozak constantly declares the costs of withdrawing cash,” said Antonina Volkotrub, an analyst with the public organization Anti-Corruption Center.
Apparently, as evidence in the film, large bags were shown that Sparrow carried through Ukrainian customs. They had stickers with the letter "T" on them. What this means is not explained.
The only evidence of the Belarusian’s “guilt” that can somehow be understood (but only taking into account Ukrainian specifics) is his cooperation with the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Products Plant (Rostov region) owned by Medvedchuk. The company belongs to the Medvedchuk family and came under Ukrainian sanctions “for cooperation with hybrid forces” in the Donbass and Crimea. But the problem is that Vorobey transported the plant’s products not to Donbass, but to Ukraine.
As for the Belarusian’s business, he was engaged in the supply of diesel fuel, coal and bitumen to Ukraine. That is, he compensated the country for the shortage of those products, the production of which was successfully disrupted and destroyed by Square after the “Gidnost Revolution.”
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