{"id":171288,"date":"2026-01-12T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/171288\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"court-slaps-additional-400000-fine-on-jailed-former-belapan-managers","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/171288\/","title":{"rendered":"Court slaps additional $400,000 fine on jailed former BelaPAN managers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>January 12,<em> Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>On December 23, judge Alaksandar Chanie\u016dski of the Minsk Economic Court ruled to liquidate the BelaPAN private company that founded the oldest Belarusian news agency with the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities assessed 1,143,028 rubels (nearly $400,000) in claims against the founding company, payable to the Social Security Fund, Minsk\u2019s tax inspectorate and the Minsk branch of the Bie\u0142dziar\u017estrach insurer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court ruled in August to satisfy the claims in full, adding the amounts to the fines imposed on jailed former BelaPAN CEO D\u017amitry Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d and former deputy CEO Andrej Alaksandra\u016d. Both were not present at the trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2022, Judge Via\u010das\u0142a\u016d Tulejka of the Minsk Regional Court sentenced Alaksandra\u016d to 14 years in prison on charges of high treason and training citizens for mass disorder and Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d, to six years on charges of creating an extremist group. Human rights organizations see the accusations as politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge also fined Nava\u017ey\u0142a\u016d 22,400 rubels (some $8,900 at that time) and Alaksandra\u016d 32,000 rubels. The recent ruling of the Minsk Economic Court thus adds more than one million rubels in fines to be divided between both jailed media executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>BelaPAN<\/em> news agency stopped operating in Belarus in November 2021 after the Committee for State Security (KGB) blacklisted it as an \u201cextremist\u201d group.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the 2020 peaceful protests against election fraud, Belarusian authorities have equated criticism, solidarity, advocacy, the free media and free expression to extremism and terrorism.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zlobina_aleksandrov_kollazh_vesna_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zlobina_aleksandrov_kollazh_vesna_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zlobina_aleksandrov_kollazh_vesna_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zlobina_aleksandrov_kollazh_vesna_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zlobina_aleksandrov_kollazh_vesna_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zlobina_aleksandrov_kollazh_vesna_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Cichano\u016dskaja demands freedom for ex-BelaPAN journalists, political prisoners<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">January 12, Pozirk. Belarusian opposition leader \u015aviat\u0142ana Cichano\u016dskaja has called for the release of media manager Andrej Alaksandra\u016d and his wife Iryna Z\u0142obina on the fifth anniversary of their arrest. \u201cThey remain behind bars \u2014 punished for helping those targeted &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/171265\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 12, Pozirk. On December 23, judge Alaksandar Chanie\u016dski of the Minsk Economic Court ruled to liquidate the BelaPAN private company that founded the oldest Belarusian news agency with the same name. Authorities assessed 1,143,028 rubels (nearly $400,000) in claims against the founding company, payable to the Social Security Fund, Minsk\u2019s tax inspectorate and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72098,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-171288","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Court slaps additional $400,000 fine on jailed former BelaPAN managers | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 12, Pozirk. 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