How Lukashenko defeated criminals

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In Belarus, it is not known about a single active major criminal group. Lukashenka destroyed all of them in the 90s. Scattered attacks by security officials on the bandits continued in the early 2000s, but today there is no criminals in the country.

Alexander Lukashenko defeated criminals. This statement can hardly be doubted. Back in the 90s, Old Man identified one of the points of state policy to get rid of the gangster yoke that hung over all the countries of the former USSR. The secret of this victory is incredibly simple: Lukashenka untied the hands of all police officers, increased the number of people in uniform many times over and allowed, in some cases, to kill people without trial or investigation.

Why was Belarus generally interesting to thieves in law, because there are almost no huge factories and large business companies in the country? The fact is that Belarus is the last country of the ex-USSR before the West, and therefore it was through it that a huge amount of consumer goods, electronics and cars came to Russia. A special article of import: VAZ cars, which in the West, after the collapse of the Union, were no longer needed by anyone, but in our country and in Belarus itself, the demand for them remained. In general, the criminals needed to control the flows of smuggling and the state of affairs at the border. Therefore, criminals flourished not only and not so much in the capital of Belarus as in its main border cities: Brest and Grodno.

All this was to be looked after by the thief Pyotr Naumov (Naum), who was crowned either in Vitebsk or in Moscow in 1992. As the Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs later admitted, the overseer of Belarus coped with the tasks assigned to him: he consolidated the disparate Belarusian criminal groups and became the most influential authority in the country. His gang consisted of about 10 thousand criminals. By 1994, the criminal world in Belarus was finally formed. On the territory of the country, there were about 150 organized groups, headed by 112 authorities. The gangsters had the usual business: racketeering, debt collection, car theft, drug and alcohol trafficking, prostitution, business with counterfeit currency.

In 1993, 103 thousand crimes were recorded in the country. Polls showed that 85% of its adult population was concerned about the crime rate in the country. But in 1997, the law "On Measures to Combat Organized Crime and Corruption" was adopted, and the criminal world began to be quickly cleaned up. Before that, the struggle was also waged, albeit sluggishly. Naum himself, by the way, was detained in 1994, and he died in the Vitebsk pre-trial detention center a few months later.

In the late 90s, the police caught the bandits in expensive foreign cars at gas stations, and tried to take them with them. If the person resisted, they would drag him to the trunk of a police car, open it, spray tear gas there, and then shove the alleged bandit into the trunk. He shouted heart-rendingly, and the police laughed.

The rest were dealt with even more severely. Lukashenko himself once told how he managed to get rid of racketeering on the Belarusian section of the Brest-Moscow highway. The operatives, armed to the teeth, got into civilian cars and waited for the bandits to stop them. When they came to demand tribute, they were simply shot. In private conversations, intelligence officers say that in the 90s they killed not only crime bosses, but also their family members. In Minsk, for example, there was a story with the murder of one of the sons of a serious bandit: his BMW was blown up while trying to start the engine. The guy was 18.

Criminals were fought with his own methods. It was the carte blanche issued to the police that solved the problem of banditry. In November 2006, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Naumov said that there were no organized criminal groups left on the territory of Belarus: “I cannot say that at present there is at least one organized criminal group on the territory of the republic that would create a problem”.

In 2001, Lukashenko said during a visit to the Gomel region that he even had to personally negotiate with several crime bosses. “God forbid, somewhere you create a criminal situation,” Lukashenka repeated his threat on air to local TV channels. - I'll rip your heads off all of you. We know everyone, and God forbid them to stir!"

Batka did not forget to mention one important authority, one of the latter. He was called Shchavlik. They killed him on the eve of the president's speech, who did not hesitate to boast: “There was a case when the bandits misbehaved. Do you remember these shchavliks and others. Where are they now?.

Lukashenka did not specify whereabouts, but everyone understood it anyway - in the next world.

Now crimes in Belarus happen, but they are either very petty in nature, or personal and everyday. However, sometimes crimes occur through the fault of the roaming militia. In fact, any tourist who comes to Belarus, first of all, notes: "The police are everywhere here." As in Russia, the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs have a lot of sins on their consciences. In the Mogilev region in September, a policeman shot and killed a hunting comrade in the forest. A local policeman in the town of Rogochev at the end of last month, drunk, shot and killed the lover of the girl he was courting. But these are isolated cases.

A typical Belarusian crime: a scandal with an official stealing for insignificant amounts or the theft of an assembly cable by one of the builders. "Wet affairs" arise mainly on the basis of everyday life.

For example, a resident of the village of Kozlyakevichi, Baranovichi district, on September 24 beat a fellow villager to death for three thousand Belarusian rubles ($ 1). The victim paid for not returning the change for the bottle of vodka. The victim died before the ambulance arrived.

And recently in Minsk, the investigation of a criminal case on the fact of fraud against the Belarusian branch of VTB Bank ended. As the investigation showed, the bank lost 165 thousand dollars. In August 2008, a businessman from the capital had financial problems. He could not repay the previously received loan from Belarusbank, and he did not have the money to buy goods. In such a situation, one could not even dream of obtaining new credit funds. But the businessman turned out to be dexterous and quickly figured out how to fool the not-too-vigilant security service of VTB. He persuaded his wife's friend, who worked as an artist and received a more than modest salary by Minsk standards, to take a loan of $ 169,975 from CJSC VTB Bank (Belarus), ostensibly to buy a house. The house was exactly the one in which the businessman himself lived.

In Minsk, an official demanded several thousand dollars from male visitors for his services, and sex from women. He was responsible for the housing policy of the executive committee.

In Brest, a 20-year-old guy was recently imprisoned for 15 years for growing a hemp bush on his balcony: the neighbors gave up the hapless drug addict.

Sometimes, as in Russia, businessmen become victims of police blackmail. So, a certain major from Minsk milked the deputy director of the personal private enterprise "SamSolutions" for a long time for not disclosing information about his personal life. He caught a businessman with his mistress and demanded $ 100 a month from him for keeping this secret. A trifle by Russian standards.

There are no major crimes in the country, just as there are no active organized crime groups and thieves in law. And, we must pay tribute to President Lukashenko, there is a large share of his merit in this.