{"id":139497,"date":"2025-05-23T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/139497\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"mielnikava-was-accompanied-by-belarusian-agent-during-2023-vacation-in-cuba-polityka","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/139497\/","title":{"rendered":"Mielnikava was accompanied by Belarusian agent during 2023 vacation in Cuba \u2013 Polityka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>May 23,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Poland\u2019s <em>Polityka<\/em> has identified a man who allegedly accompanied high-profile Belarusian opposition politician An\u017ealika Mielnikava during her August 2023 vacation in Cuba as Alaksiej \u0141abieje\u016d, claiming that he is a Belarusian military intelligence agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man, 32, used a Belarusian alias passport under the false identity of Alaksiej Hardzieje\u016d, it noted, suggesting that the opposition politician was hooked by the military intelligence agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mielnikava disappeared earlier this year and her whereabouts are unknown. She last contacted her opposition associates on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the Cyberpartisans hacktivist group accused her of misappropriating $150,000 in Bia\u0142oru\u015b Liberty Foundation\u2019s funds, which she managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have the facts. We don\u2019t understand exactly the motives [of her actions]. We like to operate only with the facts. [Today] we know for sure that the money was stolen, which most likely indicates that she was not kidnapped,\u201d&nbsp;Julijana \u0160emietaviec, a spokeswoman for the group, told <em>Deutsche Welle<\/em> on May 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Insider<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Polityka<\/em>&nbsp;reported that she travelled to Dubai from Sri Lanka on March 7 together with her daughters, who may be now staying in Belarus together with their father, her ex-husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland\u2019s Internal Security Agency (ABW) is investigating her disappearance at the prosecutors\u2019 request. Earlier reports said that investigators were considering several possible theories, including fraud, embezzlement, acting in the interests of foreign intelligence and being kidnapped by foreign agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/138174\/\">Bialoru\u015b Liberty files fraud complaint against missing activist Mielnikava<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Poland\u2019s Polityka has identified a man who allegedly accompanied high-profile Belarusian opposition politician An\u017ealika Mielnikava during her August 2023 vacation in Cuba as Alaksiej \u0141abieje\u016d, claiming that he is a Belarusian military intelligence agent. The man, 32, used a Belarusian alias passport under the false identity of Alaksiej Hardzieje\u016d, it noted, suggesting that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":136992,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-139497","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>Mielnikava was accompanied by Belarusian agent during 2023 vacation in Cuba \u2013 Polityka | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 23,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Poland\u2019s Polityka has identified a man who allegedly accompanied high-profile Belarusian opposition politician An\u017ealika\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/139497\/\" 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