Lukashenko Found A Scapegoat For Smuggling?
- 8.11.2025, 23:12
The KGB detained a BelZhD employee.
As the Community of Railwaymen of Belarus reports, November 5, after the day shift (20:00), KGB officers detained a train (nodal) dispatcher of the Minsk-node section of the MTC - Andrei G. born in 1990. As of November 7, he is in the KGB pre-trial detention center.
The Transportation Control Center (TCC) is part of the Transportation Service of the Belarusian Railway and coordinates the movement of trains throughout the entire network of Belarusian Railways in real time.
Train dispatchers are authorized to promptly change the schedule, assign unscheduled stops, reallocate priorities and send trains on bypass routes - within the current instructions and the situation on the line.
According to insider information, the reason for the detention of Andrei G. was his involvement in the organization of smuggling of Belarusian-made tobacco products across the border to the European Union using railway transport.
According to the available information, this assistance consisted in planning and organizing unscheduled stops of transit container trains bound for Poland, at the stations agreed in advance with accomplices, where smuggled goods could be freely loaded into wagons or containers with cargo.
According to the Community of Railwaymen of Belarus, Andrei G. could be involved in the organization of unscheduled stops of transit container trains bound for Poland. could be involved in the organization of unscheduled stops of container trains on the section Kolyadichi - Pomyslishche (Minsk bypass).
This bypass is located in the area of responsibility of the Minsk-Knot DNC and is considered one of the most favorable for smugglers at the Minsk junction.
The most likely reason for G.'s detention was that he was simply chosen as a "scapegoat" - "sacrificed" for the sake of creating the appearance of the authorities' fight against smuggling in Belarus. In fact, it was a showy action with the "sacrifice of a pawn".
The more so, it correlates with the statements made by Lukashenka last Friday, including on the cases of smuggling cigarettes from Belarus to Lithuania with the use of balloons.