{"id":504960,"date":"2025-12-23T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=504960"},"modified":"2025-12-23T19:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:28:15","slug":"new-head-of-the-investigative-committee-bychak-promoted-to-major-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/new-head-of-the-investigative-committee-bychak-promoted-to-major-general","title":{"rendered":"New Head Of The Investigative Committee Bychak Promoted To Major General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Kanstantsin Bychak<\/b>, former head of the KGB Investigative Directorate and appointed today as chairman of the Investigative Committee, has been promoted in rank. By a decree signed by <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> on December 23, he was awarded the rank of major general, the Investigative Committee press service reported.<\/p>\n<p>State Secretary of the Security Council <b>Alyaksandr Valfovich<\/b> presented Bychak with his shoulder boards and introduced him to the staff of the Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cKanstantsin Fyodaravich\u2019s professional career has been closely connected with investigative work; he knows all its nuances from the inside. I am confident that he will approach service in the Investigative Committee with the necessary level of responsibility and understanding,\u201d<\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valfovich<\/span> said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504899\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504899\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-23.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-23-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-23-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-23-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-23-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504905\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504905\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-44.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-44-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-44-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-44-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-44-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504900\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504900\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-28.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-28-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-28-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-28-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-28-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504902\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504902\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-33.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-33-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-33-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-33-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-33-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504906\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504906\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-47.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-47.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-47-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-47-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-47-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-47-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504904\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504904\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-40.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-40-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-40-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-40-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-40-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_504903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-504903\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-504903\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-36.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-36-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-36-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-36-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-23_17-01-36-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-504903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanstantsin Bychak, former head of the KGB Investigative Directorate and appointed today as chairman of the Investigative Committee, has been promoted in rank. By a decree signed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka on December 23, he was awarded the rank of major general, the Investigative Committee press service reported. State Secretary of the Security Council Alyaksandr Valfovich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":504959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694ac326bad39.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"New Head Of The Investigative Committee Bychak Promoted To Major General"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}