Home arrest of Baumertner was extended for two months

The court in Minsk extended for two months the term of house arrest to the Uralkali general director Vladislav Baumertner. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the head of the information department of the IC of Belarus Pavel Trawko. An investigation of a criminal case against a businessman has been extended for the same period. The two -month period of the investigation of the case, established earlier, expired on October 26.

The Russian embassy in Minsk has not yet received an official notification of this extent, Igor Karyagin, head of the consular department, told Interfax. “But since such a decision is made, we intend to ask for a meeting with him (Baumertner. - Ed.),” The diplomat added. Karyagin also said that there have been no complaints or requests from the entrepreneur to the embassy.

Baumertner was detained in Minsk at the end of August and imprisoned in the KGB of Belarusian pre -trial detention center. Initially, the CEO of Uralkali was charged with the abuse of power and official powers, but later the prosecution was re -qualified, incriminating the theft. On September 26, the businessman was transferred under house arrest .

On October 21, the Baumertner Baumertner Basmann District Court in absentia , after the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called the arrest of the Kommersant condition for his extradition to his homeland. Meanwhile, Lukashenko later said that his country would transfer Baumerther of Russia only if he compensates for the damage to him .

On October 25, at the Leningrad station in Moscow , an attempt was made to detain the top manager of the Belarusian potassium company Dmitry Samoilov. "The entrepreneur was heading for St. Petersburg. When he got on the train, unknown people entered his compartment and announced that he was detained," a law enforcement source said. After he was taken to the platform, police officers on duty at the station drew attention to the situation. After a short trial, the businessman was released. According to the source, the detention attempt was made by representatives of the Belarusian special services.

The head of the press service of the KGB of Belarus, Arthur Strech, refused to comment on this message. "Topic information is a clear provocation. We do not comment on it," he said. Official comments were also abandoned by the transport police and the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate.

On Monday, it became known that the Safety Service of Uralkalia took the protection of several managers of the company . The company accused the Belarusian KGB of openly conducting round -the -clock surveillance of the defendants in “potassium” in Moscow. On such a measure, "Uralkali" went after an attempt to abduct Samoilov.

Employees of the Belarusian special services participating in the operation are already known to the Sat by person. “These people do not really lurk, they behave as if they feel their impunity. When they come up with questions and ask to introduce themselves, they show their official CGB certificates,” said the representative of the company.