Analyst: Chinese Auditor Pressed Lukashenko For Rat-running

What the ruler talked about behind closed doors with the representative of the People's Republic of China.

Analyst Sergei Chaly believes that Beijing pressured Lukashenko for the use of Chinese transit for smuggling:

- If we consider who pressured whom, it is more likely that China pressured Lukashenko rather than Poland," says Sergei Chaly on the BRC channel. - This is evidenced both by the order of the moves themselves and by the fact that the visit to Poland was political (on the lines of foreign ministers), while the visit to Minsk, it turns out, was disciplinary.

Analyst notes that before coming to Belarus, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Li Si paid an official visit to Greece, where he spoke about the need to curb corruption.

-Belarusian official media did not say a word about the fact that he flew to Belarus from Greece, - points out Sergei Chaly. - And I have no doubt that the Polish Foreign Ministry told China not only about the exercises, not only about Polish political prisoners, not only about the waves of migrants, but also about how Belarus uses Chinese transit for its own smuggling. And everything is done at the most official level.

Analyst quotes the latest news from the Polish media to confirm his thought:

July 28. Belarus has developed a new method of smuggling cigarettes to Poland. Chinese trains transiting Belarus are used for this purpose, when the contraband is placed inside the container.

May 13. Polish customs found smuggled cigarettes from Belarus in a container from China.

July 30. They stopped smuggling 80,000 packs of cigarettes, also in containers, also from China.

August 27. 16,000 packs of cigarettes with Belarusian excise stamps were found, but already in a semi-trailer carrying goods from China.

September 19, just before the visit. 23,000 packs of illegal cigarettes were found in a container of a freight train traveling from China to Belgium. Polish officers found that the containers had been reloaded in Belarus, where the cargo had apparently been added.

- And in Belarus, as we have long known, apart from individual shuttle traders, smuggling is the work of one criminal group that has replaced all the others. We know from numerous investigations how smuggling in Belarus is organized at the highest, official level, - says Sergei Chaly. - Therefore, the background of the Chinese auditor's visit to Belarus was somewhat different.

Analyst reminds that, according to the news of the Belarusian state media, "Alexander Lukashenko preferred to talk in a more private atmosphere," as "money likes silence.

- As an experienced expert in Lukashenko's hermeneutics, I will pay attention to several points," says Sergei Chaly. - First, how he stammered noticeably on "uh issues not subject to uh publicity". Secondly, the "money likes silence" technique regularly used by the Belarusian propaganda and applied to Lukashenko's secret negotiations.

It always means that the matter is not about the interests of the state, but about murky schemes that involve Lukashenko's personal pocket. Especially when they say: "there is a lot of money at stake".

Moreover, the non-public conversation takes place in such a narrow circle that the Belarusian side is represented by Lukashenko alone.

- He doesn't even have his own interpreter. Not to mention the profile ministers or deputy prime ministers, which are usual in such situations.

So Lukashenko does not want the content of the conversation to be known to anyone in Belarus, and it was intended only for Si Jinping personally. And one can guess why. Well, who would want to listen to a lecture of the head of the Commission on Party discipline about the Chinese specifics of the fight against corruption in the presence of his subordinates?

Analyst reminds that Lukashenko literally the very next day after this conversation took three officials in turn to report to him.

- If we were shown the conversation with Prime Minister Turchin, we were only informed about the reports of Brest Regional Executive Committee Chairman Parkhomchik and Lukashenko's business manager Nazarov, - points out Sergei Chaly. - That is, with the head of the region, through which the smuggling passes and whom Lukashenko called "border guard" and head of the entire business empire of Lukashenko in May. As they say in such cases, all coincidences are absolutely coincidental.

And what does Lukashenko himself say to the Chinese guest?

- Well, Comrade Auditor, what are your claims against me? It's Poland that is plotting something against China in favor of some states. I have nothing to do with it. I have paws, - interprets what Sergey Chaly said. - And he's been using this "nothing to do with" everywhere lately. Both when drones fly to Poland through Belarus, and when the Russian army invades Ukraine through Belarus. It's not us.

And I don't even know what causes more Belarusian shame: the pettiness of Lukashenko's ratting on large-scale transit operations in China, or this shameful "it's not me, I had nothing to do with it" - as in the anecdote: "Someone else has pissed in my pants".

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