{"id":580885,"date":"2026-09-24T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580885"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:03:08","slug":"in-belarus-car-and-icon-belonging-to-priest-henrykh-akalatovich-fail-to-sell-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/in-belarus-car-and-icon-belonging-to-priest-henrykh-akalatovich-fail-to-sell-at-auction","title":{"rendered":"In Belarus, Car and Icon Belonging to Priest Henrykh Akalatovich Fail to Sell at Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Another auction to sell the seized property of former political prisoner, priest <strong>Henrykh Akalatovich<\/strong>, failed due to a lack of bidders. \u201cChristian Vision\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/christianvision\/5337\">reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p>A 2007 Volkswagen Transporter with a starting price of 16,860 rubles and an 18th-century icon, \u201cThe Resurrection of Christ from the Tomb,\u201d were put up for auction. After a previous unsuccessful attempt to sell it, the starting price of the icon was reduced to 2,400 rubles. However, no buyers were found for either the car or the icon.<\/p>\n<p>The BelYurObespecheniye platform is now offering the creditor the option of keeping the unsold property as repayment of the debt under enforcement proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Other cars, icons and a plot of land belonging to Akalatovich had previously also been put up for auction.<\/p>\n<p>Henrykh Akalatovich was detained in late 2023. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison under the article on high treason after being accused of \u201cspying for Poland and the Vatican.\u201d In November 2025, he was \u201cpardoned\u201d by <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> and left for Rome after his release. Belarusian authorities continue to put his property up for auction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_559012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-559012\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sg1y0i1cy9c40lf7omyjob356yoxcr6t.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-559012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sg1y0i1cy9c40lf7omyjob356yoxcr6t.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sg1y0i1cy9c40lf7omyjob356yoxcr6t.png 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sg1y0i1cy9c40lf7omyjob356yoxcr6t-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sg1y0i1cy9c40lf7omyjob356yoxcr6t-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sg1y0i1cy9c40lf7omyjob356yoxcr6t-711x400.png 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-559012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: e-auction.by<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another auction to sell the seized property of former political prisoner, priest Henrykh Akalatovich, failed due to a lack of bidders. \u201cChristian Vision\u201d reported this. A 2007 Volkswagen Transporter with a starting price of 16,860 rubles and an 18th-century icon, \u201cThe Resurrection of Christ from the Tomb,\u201d were put up for auction. After a previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":580884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab51f8f969d1.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"In Belarus, Car and Icon Belonging to Priest Henrykh Akalatovich Fail to Sell at Auction"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580885","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=580885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580886,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580885\/revisions\/580886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}