Viktar Sheiman
Current assets: Vector Capital Group (company management); BelSecurityGroup/GuardService (private armed security and security systems); Belgeopoisk (geological exploration); GBK-Silk Road (wholesale meat products); Avangard Gruzotrans (transportation); Aleksvit (fitness and wellness); FiliGroup (retail); Brandshandel (logistics); Zhemchuzhina 2010 (construction in Abkhazia).
Historical assets: Globalcustom, Solartech/Globalcustom-Commerce, Aleksvit Ltd (logistics and re-export), Globalcustom-Management/Ordozavod (logistics and re-export, later jewelry business), Upstream (refined petroleum products), Belferumgroup (collection, procurement, processing, and trading of scrap metal), Zim Goldfields (gold exploration and mining in Zimbabwe), and Vector Energy Innovation FZCO (electricity trading in the UAE).
Connections: Aleksandr Lukashenko (associate), Sergei Sheiman (son, business partner), Olga Sheiman (daughter), Hanna Pushkarova-Sheiman (alleged wife, nominal co-owner of companies), Aleksandr Zingman (family business partner), Yauhen Zhouner (trusted manager), Siarhei Anoshka (trusted manager), Andrei Svirydau (trusted manager), Mikalai Selivanau (trusted manager), Aliaksandr Ramanouski (nominal company owner), Anton Novik (nominal company owner), Yury Hryshuk (nominal company owner), Aliaksandr Miatla (nominal company owner), Andrei Feaktsistau (nominal company owner), Hanna Khmialeuskaya (former owner of a related company), Tatsiana Anoshka (manager of a related company).
Privileges: Viktar Sheiman has been part of Aleksandr Lukashenko’s inner circle since the mid-1990s. He led the Security Council, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Presidential Administration, and the Presidential Property Management Directorate. Following his resignation in 2021, Sheiman continued overseeing Belarus’s relations with countries in Latin America and Africa.
While serving in the government, Sheiman built a network of private companies and registered them under the names of trusted associates.
Companies associated with Sheiman enjoyed exceptional opportunities thanks to his close ties to Lukashenko. In 2011, a Lukashenko decree granted Belferumgroup special rights to collect, process, and supply scrap metal. In 2020, Lukashenko issued a decree granting GuardService the privilege of using weapons, which no other private security company in Belarus enjoyed.
Sheiman also used his official position in overseas projects. In 2018, he negotiated with the Zimbabwean authorities on behalf of Belarus regarding trade and mineral extraction. Shortly thereafter, a gold mining company was established in Zimbabwe. Sheiman's son, Sergei, and his partner, Aleksandr Zingman, controlled it through offshore entities. The Belarusian state held no stake in this business.
Companies linked to Sheiman, such as Globalcustom, Aleksvit Ltd., and Brandshandel, profited from re-exporting goods to Russia.
After Lukashenko visited Abkhazia, the company Zhemchuzhina 2010, which is managed by associates of Sheiman’s, received 20 hectares of land on the Black Sea coast. The land is estimated to be worth $6.4 million.
Sheiman built a 547-square-meter house near Minsk, estimated at $350,000. His trusted associates, Tatsiana Anoshka and Yauhen Zhouner, bought property in the United Arab Emirates.
Restrictions: Sheiman is subject to sanctions imposed by the EU, the UK, the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Globalcustom-Management is subject to sanctions imposed by the EU and Switzerland.
