Pavel Topouzidis / Victor Petrovich

Current assets: Tabak-Invest (cigarette manufacturing, real estate development, and retail) and Sentoni PRO (cigarette manufacturing and distribution).

Historical assets: MarketLiga (retail) and Ligmaton (pharmaceutical distribution and retail).

Topouzidis’s connections: Aleksandr Lukashenko (patron), Georgi Topouzidis (illegitimate son), Siarhei Karpovich (partner).

Petrovich’s connections: Galina Petrovitch (sister), Georgi Topouzidis (nephew), Siarhei Karpovich (partner).

Privileges: For more than 20 years, from 1997 to 2020, the businessmen, who were related by family ties and connected through equal business partnerships, owned Belarus’s only privately owned tobacco factory. Tabak-Invest receives annual production and sales quotas for tobacco products on the domestic market from the state. Their tobacco business was implicated in an investigation into cigarette smuggling.

The affiliated company Sentoni PRO entered the market in the 2020s. It also received a production quota and became the second-largest cigarette importer after the trader Belarustorg (part of the Belarusian President's Property Management Directorate).

Tabak-Invest's owners were among the pioneers in developing the retail real estate market. They received several plots of land from the authorities for constructing retail complexes. In recent years, the company has grown to become one of the largest owners of retail real estate and private hotel properties in the country.

Pavel Topouzidis served on the Belarusian Council for the Development of Entrepreneurship from 2017 to 2025. In the mid-2010s, he worked on election commissions during presidential and parliamentary elections.

Restrictions: Since December 2023, Topouzidis and Petrovich and their company, Tabak-Invest, have been on the US sanctions list "revenue generators of the Lukashenko regime".