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.