Journalists learned that in 2019, Ilyukhin went to Canada to take up the position of first secretary at the Belarusian embassy.
"In Ottawa, he served as a member of the electoral commission for the 2020 presidential election. According to the official protocol, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won a landslide victory in his precinct, garnering 321 votes (91%) to Alexander Lukashenko's 21 votes (6%)," the publication writes .
In August 2021, Ilyukhin served as consul in New York. He then served as first secretary at the Belarusian Embassy in Washington, D.C. He left the diplomatic service in April 2022. After leaving government service, Dmitry worked at the representative office of the International Federation of Red Cross Societies (IFRC).
Dmitry's arrest likely occurred about a year ago. The nature of the charges and the exact sentence are unknown, but the sentence involves imprisonment .
On March 19, 2026, he was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
