"Everyone who wasn't here yesterday is being detained." Security forces again visited the ZROBIM architects office
Security forces worked for the second day in a row at the Minsk office of the well-known architectural studio ZROBIM architects. According to information from the "Zerkalo" (Mirror) publication, detentions again took place there on April 10. All employees were summoned to their workplaces, including those who were not present during the first visit of the security forces.
Office of ZROBIM architects studio. Photo: zrobim.by
As a source familiar with the situation told "Zerkalo", security forces again visited the Minsk office of ZROBIM architects on the morning of April 10. According to the source, just like the day before, investigative actions were carried out by employees of the Department of Financial Investigations.
The interlocutor reported that most of the approximately 50 employees detained on April 9 have been released. However, the company's founder, Andrei Makouski (Andrus Bezdar), according to preliminary data, remains in custody. The second co-founder of the studio, Aliaksei Karablou, is in the USA.
"Everyone who wasn't at their workplaces yesterday is being detained. Today, everyone was told to come to the office," the source added.
Who exactly gave this order is unknown to her.
Before this, on the morning of April 9, security forces came to the Minsk office of ZROBIM architects. As two independent sources told "Zerkalo" then, everyone present — about 50 people — was detained. The company's work server was also inaccessible.
Officially, the reasons for the security forces' interest in one of Belarus's most successful architectural studios have not yet been disclosed. In the evening, however, one of the Telegram channels close to the security forces linked the detentions to a post by the company's founder, Andrei Makouski, on the social network Threads.
In early March, the entrepreneur reported that the company had received a letter from state bodies demanding the hiring of an ideologist. Propagandists interpreted this post as dissatisfaction.
"Well, the result was not long in coming. Simply, where there are no ideologists, resistance begins to grow like mold, and order has to be restored by more radical means," the message stated.