Police arrests director of car business-related media outlet and threatens its owners

Pali­ak­ou is based in Min­sk, and report­ed­ly used to man­age the Viber_auto_forums project. Recent­ly, he worked as a direc­tor of the Bonus­torg com­pa­ny that owns the ABW.BY media out­let.

He was arrest­ed recent­ly, and the police video shows his pho­tos from protests, along with screen­shots from his per­son­al chats and pri­vate groups. The video stress­es that he made a lot of mon­ey, approx­i­mate­ly $1,500 per month.

Towards the end of their report, the police warn busi­ness own­ers who are cur­rent­ly away on vaca­tion “to pre­pare for the com­ing days when they will need all their ener­gy.”

Last June, the edi­tor-in-chief of ABW.BY, Yulia Mudreuskaya, and the spe­cial projects edi­tor, Yury Hlad­chuk, were arrest­ed. Yulia received a prison sen­tence of one and a half years, while Yury was sen­tenced to two and a half years in prison.