During 'seminars' for Moldovans in BiH: Wagner member Andrei Beker founded 'IT company' in Banja Luka

(Patria) - Russian citizen Andrei Beker, who is linked to the Wagner unit and the training of Moldovans in Republika Srpska, founded a company in Banja Luka at the end of September this year, Istraga.ba.

The company is registered at the Banja Luka address Davida Štrpca number 33A. At this address is the Mima apartment, where a group of Russian citizens stayed, whom the Moldovan intelligence service identified as Russian spies who were training Moldovan citizens for actions in crisis situations.

Beker's "IT" company registered in Banja Luka


According to official data from the registry, Russian Andrei Beker founded the company AE777 d.o.o. Banja Luka on September 27 this year. Beker is registered as both the owner and director of the company. The contact number listed for this company is 065 258 685.

"I only registered the company. I don't know where Mr. Beker is now. Whether he is in Russia or Serbia," replied the woman who answered the given phone number.

AE 777, as we said, is registered at the address Davida Štrpca number 33A. The Mima apartments are located at this address. We call them too.

"I cannot give you any number. They are my guests and I am not obliged to answer you," said a female person who is apparently the owner of the Mima apartments.

She did not wish to confirm, nor deny, that Russian citizen Andrei Beker founded a company in her apartment.

The activity of the founded company is registered under code 62.01. This refers to "computer programming". This means that a Russian citizen linked to spy operations in Moldova and BiH has registered an "IT firm" in Banja Luka. And this in an apartment where a group of Russian citizens, identified by Moldovans as conducting training for Moldovan citizens, stayed from May to October this year.

Let us remind you, the Moldovan service announced in mid-October that, ahead of the presidential elections and the referendum on the country's continued rapprochement with the EU, pro-Russian Moldovan citizens underwent Wagner training in Serbia and BiH. BiH security services registered Russian citizens who occasionally came to BiH. Moldovans announced that among the coordinators of these actions were Russian citizens Konstantin Goloskokov and Mihael Potepkin, who is under international sanctions. Potepkin had direct connections with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner, who, after the rebellion against Putin, "mysteriously" died in a plane crash. Potepkin was also connected to the Russian organization "FERMA", which in 2023 was involved in financing and organizing destabilizing protest actions in the Republic of Moldova. He is currently responsible for carrying out malign influence operations worldwide, within the entity "AKSON".

At the end of October, Istraga.ba reported that Andrei Beker, born 05.03.1981 in Russia, Serghei Moskvin, born 17.07.1953 in Russia, Sergey Solovich born 27.02.1988 in Russia, Vladimir Vildiaev born 15.08.1977 in Russia, Aleksandr Volkhonskiy born 02.06.1976, Danila Russu, born 22.03.2002, and Georgiy Bubnov born 12.08.1971 in Russia, had visited BiH. They were part of a group of Russian citizens who conducted "theoretical" training for a group of about twenty Moldovan citizens near Banja Luka.

Andrei Beker: photo from the passport he used when entering BiH

This is a photo from Andrei Beker's passport, which he used when entering Bosnia and Herzegovina. His passport states that he was born on March 5, 1981.

Wagner member Andrei Beker


In this photo is Russian citizen Andre Olegovich Beker, whom Ukrainians consider a member of the paramilitary formation Wagner. According to the Ukrainian database, Beker was born in 1971.

However, online facial recognition programs with over 80 percent certainty indicate that the same person is in the two mentioned photographs. Thus, the face of Wagner member Andrei Beker from the Ukrainian database has an 80 percent match with the face of Andrei Beker who visited BiH. The programs claim it is the same person.

This means that a member of the Wagner unit, Andrei Beker, has founded an IT company in Banja Luka, whose headquarters are in an apartment where a group of Russian citizens, identified by Moldovans as Russian spies, stayed.

The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, admitted on RTRs that Russian citizens in BiH were "holding seminars".