According to Our Niwa, on May 15 respective Eurotorg top-level managers, a legal entity that owns a “Euroopt” chain of stores, were detained. It's the largest private company in the country. There's no telling what the reason for the arrest is yet.
As “Our Niwa” said, people acquainted with this story, there have been stopped breaking doors at the central Eurotorg office in Minsk. most likely the Department of Financial Investigation came to search the office.
The top-level bosses who were in the area were detained. The workers in the lower positions remained at large.
According to the “Euroopt” website, the network includes 1139 shops. The company employed almost 32,000 people at the end of 2024.
It is known that the main beneficiaries of the company — Siarhei Litwin and Uladzimir Vasilko – have long lived abroad, where they left during the erstwhile raid on “Euroopt” in the early 2000s. They control Belarusian business through European legal entities.
At the same time, the president of the Board of Eurotorg in Minsk is Alaksandr Litwin, brother of Siarhei. It is not known if he is at large.
A visit by law enforcement representatives took place in the context of the vegetable crisis: the price simplification policy has made it impossible for suppliers to supply products to national stores due to the fact that it is not profitable.
Last year's harvest was sold to Russia at marketplace prices, while Belarusian stores receive stock products – sometimes broken or simply unfit.
Clearly, this is the case with potatoes which are not widely discussed in society. So was cabbage and onions.
Source: nashaniva.com
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