Татьяна Ким с инспекцией в «Великом камне». Источник: пресс-служба Wildberries
The publication Buro has published an investigation into the Belarusian assets of the Wildberries online marketplace. According to the investigators, the evidence suggests that individuals linked to the family of Aliaksandr Lukashenka hold stakes in the companies.
In Belarus, the Russian marketplace established two legal entities: IMVBRB and Operator VB Taxi. In 2025, two weeks after a meeting hosted by Aliaksandr Lukashenka and attended by Wildberries founder Tatiana Kim, the Belarusian closed joint-stock company TD Kvadrat acquired a 10% stake in each of the two entities.
In 2025, TD Kvadrat received 70.054 million roubles in “ncome from participation in the charter capital of other organisations.” At the same time, Wildberries’ Belarusian subsidiary paid out almost exactly the same amount in dividends — 70.053 million roubles.
In 2025, TD Kvadrat acquired a 99.42% majority stake in the commercial Bank for Growth and Development of Business (RRB Bank). Following the financial year, an audit required RRB Bank to disclose its new ultimate beneficial owner. The owner turned out to be businessman Dzmitry Kurnosenka. Buro journalists contacted him by phone, but he declined to answer their questions and described the information about his ownership of TD Kvadrat as “unverified.”
Dmitriy Kurnosenka and his Russian business partner Oleg Badera, owner of the VessoLink group of companies, own the operator Safe Roads of Belarus, which installs and operates equipment for the country’s unified speed-camera enforcement system. In addition, Kurnosenka has controlled the closed joint-stock company Mediaizmeritel since 2020. It is Belarus’s only national audience measurement provider for television and radio.
Buro also points out that a major outdoor advertising operator, Creative Code, has recently emerged in Belarus. Fifteen per cent of the company is owned by Music Media Company, where Hanna Lukashenka, the wife of Dzmitry Lukashenka, serves as general producer. Another 10% is registered to ANSL Production. Its 95% majority stake is owned by Andrei Vrubleuski, a senior executive working for Dzmitry Lukashenka.
Meanwhile, 75% of Creative Code is owned by the closed joint-stock company KorusMedia. Its director is Darya Kharuzhka, who, according to Cyber Partisans, worked at Safe Roads of Belarus for more than 10 years. The investigators use this connection to link the outdoor advertising operator to Kurnosenka.
With the help of Cyber Partisans, the investigation’s authors also found that Kurnosenka had travelled by car several times with a man named Dzmitry Kurakevich. The journalists identified five joint trips to Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine in 2017 and 2019.
Kurakevich is a former employee of the Presidential Security Service and has also been described as Lukashenka’s personal driver. From 2016 to 2024, he also worked at Safe Roads of Belarus, where Kurnosenka was in charge.
The investigators identify another link between Wildberries and the Lukashenka family through Yauheni Vasilyeu. He heads government relations at Wildberries in Belarus. At the same time, Vasilyeu is the director of TD Kvadrat, and his phone number was listed when the legal entity was registered.
The investigators also link Vasilyeu to the Lukashenka family through his wife, Alena. Alena Vasilyeva is a business partner of Natallia Sadouskaya in the company Syabry Event. Sadouskaya and her brother Ihar Sadouski jointly own the company Stolichnaya Restoratsiya. The latter holds a 75% stake in Podium Star, which operates the Fabriq restaurant. The remaining 25% of Podium Star is registered to Volodymyr Kulakov, the husband of Hanna Lukashenka’s biological sister.
A Buro journalist called Yauheni Vasilyeu and asked what role Natallia Sadouskaya had played in his appointment. The Wildberries representative declined to answer and described the information that he was the director of TD Kvadrat as “some kind of mistake.”