[1] On March 23, 2012, Chyzh was included in EU's travel ban list because of his alleged ties to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.
A BYPOL investigation has uncovered that Yury Chyzh had gifted a 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé worth half a million US dollars and a 1988 Panther Kallista to Lukashenko.
[5] In October 2022, the Belarusian Investigative Center declared that Yury Chyzh and his Lithuanian business partner Vitold Tomaševskij resold Russian oil under the guise of solvents in 2011–2012.
[6] He was under arrest in 2016 and from 2021 to 2022 on tax evasion charges;[7] in February 2023, Chyzh was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, but was released from serving the term due to an amnesty and the time he had spent in custody.
Chyzh sponsored the development of sports infrastructure in Minsk, including the construction of ice hockey rinks and the renovation of the Dynamo football stadium.