Businessman , head of the auditing company Ernst&Young.
Pavel was detained and placed in pretrial detention on charges related to a political article. The criminal case is known to relate to events that took place in 2020. In 2020, at the height of police beatings, Lashchenko issued a letter to the heads of law enforcement and government agencies , expressing doubt about the figures cited by Yermoshina and calling on everyone to reconsider and return to the rule of law.
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).
