Businessman
Aliaksandr Zaitsau is known as the founder of Sohra Overseas, co-owner of the Bremina-Orsha industrial and logistics complex, and football clubs. However, Zaitsau is also involved in defense projects related to companies in Belarus, Latvia, and Ukraine.
Aliaksandr Zaitsau. Photo: tut.by
In its investigation, Belsat tells about a little-known part of the business of an oligarch close to the Lukashenka family.
Echo of Zingman s arrest
In March 2021, businessman
Aliaksandr Zingman, close to
Viktar Sheiman, was arrested at Lubumbashi airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Local intelligence agencies suspected the owner of the AFTRADE DMCC company that he intended to sell weapons to the former president of the country,
Lead:
Belarusian businessman
Alyaksandr Zingman was detained on March 19 in Lubumbashi, the second-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along with him, the security forces arrested the head of the AFTRADE company, Aleh Vodchyts, and the Italian entrepreneur P
aolo Persico. The wife of the latter confirmed that he had been detained.
Zingman is not just an ordinary exporter of Belarusian machinery to African countries. He is an honorary consul of Zimbabwe in Belarus and often accompanies the head of the Presidential Administration, Viktar Sheiman, on his trips to Africa.
What is known about the detained Belarusians?
The media of some African countries often call Zingman an adviser to Lukashenka s aide, meaning exactly Viktar Sheiman. Together with Sheiman, the businessman used to attend official meetings in Zimbabwe and Zambia.