Viktor Sheiman

Viktor Sheiman
Віктар Шэйман
Виктор Шейман
Head of the Presidential Administration of Belarus
In office
29 November 2004 – 5 January 2006
Preceded byUral Latypov
Succeeded byHienadź Nievyhłas
Personal details
Born (1958-05-26) 26 May 1958 (age 66)
Saltanishki, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Belarus)
Political partyIndependent
Alma materBlagoveshchenskoe Tank Command Red Banner School, Ministry of the Interior Academy of the Republic of Belarus

Viktor Vladimirovich Sheiman (Belarusian: Віктар Уладзіміравіч Шэйман, romanizedViktar Uladzimiravich Sheyman, Russian: Виктор Владимирович Шейман, romanizedViktor Vladimirovich Sheyman; born 26 May 1958) is a Belarusian politician.

Sheiman has been a close ally of Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko since Lukashenko came to power in 1994. Sheiman was Belarus’ prosecutor general in 2004. Sheiman has been sanctioned by both the European Union and the United States over the disappearances of Lukashenko's critics.[1]

The Pandora Papers leaks revealed that Sheiman and his family secretly owned an offshore company that was active in dealings with Zimbabwe's state-owned mining company at the same time that Sheiman was negotiating trade agreements between Belarus and Zimbabwe on behalf of the Belarusian government.[1]

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