In 2016, New MIA Head Sent Muay Thai Team Member Vital Hurkou Packing

Karayev called the national champion "an oppositionist and extremist.

In 2016, the Ministry of Sport and Tourism refused to fund a trip to the 2016 Muay Thai World Cup for multiple title holder, Vital Hurkou. The athlete told that at one of the meetings of the Muay Thai and Kick Boxing Federation, its head, Yury Karayeu, discussed his photo with the Pahonia. The situation was set so that there was an "extremist and oppositionist" in the national team, Radio Svaboda reports.

As a result, the head of the Federation, Karayeu, offered Hurkou to complete the contract at the Ministry and resign at will.