Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenko first visited the occupied by Russia Hi Georgia in September 2022. During your visit to Abkhazia However, he stated that he did not intend to recognize this territory as Russian.
Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko received land to build a hotel in Abkhazia
According to Belsat journalists, Lukashenko was then aware that recognizing Abkhazia would attract Belarus more Western sanctions. Despite this, Minsk and the capital of Abkhazia – Sukhumi – ultimately announced a plan to develop cooperation without details.
The next day (September 29, 2022), the prime minister of separatist Abkhazia was to approve the proposal transfer of a seaside plot with an area of 20 ha in the village of Kyndyg to Żemczużyna 2010 (Perła 2010) – agreed jointly by journalists from Belsat and the Belarusian Investigation Center journalistic project.
The following month, Abkhazian television broadcast a report giving more details about the new investment. It turned out that a facility was to be built in the village of Kyndyg in the Ochamchira region sanatorium and health resort complex.
Lukashenko is to build a hotel. In occupied territory
“The planned investment volume is 15 billion rubles. Zhemchuzyna 2010 LLC is registered in Abkhazia and is 90 percent owned by a citizen of Belarusand in 10 percent citizen of Abkhazia” – was indicated in the material obtained by Belsat. As the editorial team noted, this amount – according to the then exchange rate, was equivalent to 260 million dollars – exceeds the annual budget of the entire Abkhazia.
“Legally, the company belongs to an Abkhazian citizen, Dato Kwicynia, and a Belarusian company, Termalija. The owner of the Belarusian company, registered two months before Lukashenko's trip to Abkhazia, is a former employee of the Quick Payment System website, Alaksandr Ramanouski, who was also a co-owner of the Globalcustom company, associated with the former head of the Administration of the President of Belarus, Viktar Sheiman,” we read.
Abkhazia. What about Lukashenko's hotel? The taxes have been paid and the construction is still going on
Media reports show that the hotel is still not readywhat's more – construction never started. In October 2022, Abkhazian parliamentarians warned that if construction does not start within three years, the investor may lose the land.
Two years after the land was handed over to Żemczużyna 2010, construction has still not started. Satellite photos from the end of August show that the plot is still undeveloped. According to Belsat, Szejman and his people definitely did they will not give the plot to the Abkhazian authorities – as evidenced by regular payment of land taxes.
The editors estimate that the value of the plot may exceed $6.4 millionbecause the area is located directly on the Black Sea coast. “Lukashenko's people are able to hide their business connections and derive huge income from business, both for themselves and the dictator himself. This was the case with the famous Zircone bunker anchored in the Baltic Sea and with the mysterious construction of an Arctic port near Murmansk,” the journalists sum up.