Husband of famous Belarusian lawyer given 9 years in Russian colony for bribes. And their shared apartment in Vyborg was quietly sold

Hanna Keller is a well-known Minsk lawyer. She has been working since 2000 and primarily specialized in family matters, handling divorces. In 2016, Keller ran for deputy in the House of Representatives from Hajdukievich's party, but eventually withdrew from the elections. Her daughter Milena, who was 22 at the time, was also registered as a candidate.

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As it turned out, a family drama unfolded in Hanna Keller's own life. In June 2020, the Belarusian lawyer married Russian customs officer Uladzimir Hramyka. He held the lucrative position of head of the Vyborg Customs Department of Russia — on the border with Finland.

The marriage was registered in Belarus. A few months later, the couple bought a one-room apartment in Vyborg with an area of 42.3 sq. m. They lived in different cities: Keller worked in Belarus and periodically visited her husband, they jointly planned renovations and a future move to this apartment.

Around 2021, Hramyka developed a close relationship with a certain Sviatlana Filyenka (Sianko). In 2023, the customs officer faced problems at work, he started drinking, and Filyenka often visited his apartment from June to December 2023, where they discussed the work situation. Eventually, Hramyka moved to live at various addresses with acquaintances, and left the keys to the Vyborg apartment with Sviatlana — to "look after" the dwelling.

On December 25, 2023, he retired from customs, and the next day he issued a general power of attorney to Filyenka — formally, so that she would handle his pension affairs while he himself was not planning to be in Vyborg.

On January 10, 2024, Filyenka, acting on this power of attorney on behalf of Hramyka, "sold" his apartment, co-owned with Keller, to her mother — pensioner Mariya Sianko. The contract stated that at the time of the sale, Hramyka was not married — which did not correspond to reality.

On March 18, 2024, Hramyka was detained by security forces — as part of a criminal case for receiving bribes — and was placed under house arrest. It was during this period, while he was under investigation and arrest, that it was discovered the apartment was slipping from the family's hands. Soon, Hanna Keller also learned about it — from a phone conversation with her husband.

Hramyka and Keller filed a lawsuit, insisting that they had given no consent for the sale, and Filyenka had used the power of attorney for her own interests.

But Filyenka and her mother filed a counter-claim with a completely different version: they claimed that in the autumn of 2023, Hramyka, fearing criminal liability, himself asked Filyenka to arrange two fictitious transactions — for this apartment (to Filyenka's mother) and for another, three-room apartment (to his sister Larysa), to formally remove the property from potential arrest in the criminal case. According to them, Hramyka's sister was aware and even thanked Filyenka for her "help".

The court examined both versions and reached an interim conclusion. The transaction for the disputed apartment (Filyenka's mother) was declared fictitious by the court. This transaction was deemed invalid, and ownership was restored to Uladzimir Hramyka.

However, for the second apartment — the one transferred to Hramyka's sister, Larysa — no evidence of fictitiousness was found. The apartment remained the property of Larysa Hramyka.

As for the former customs officer himself, he was sentenced to 9 years in a strict-regime penal colony. The court ruled that Uladzimir Hramyka took bribes from drivers to avoid inspecting their vehicles. Whether he remained married to Hanna Keller is unknown.

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