Mosgorsud confirmed the absentee arrest of Vladislav Baumerthester

The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint of the lawyers of the head of Uralkali, Vladislav Baumgertner, Rapsei reports. Thus, the court confirmed his absentee arrest. The decision has entered into force. Baumertner in Russia was charged in absentia in accordance with part 3 of Article 33 and part 2 of Article 201 of the Criminal Code (abuse of powers that entailed grave consequences). According to investigators, the general director of Uralkali was a direct organizer of the crime and controlled the accomplices.

On Tuesday, the Russian Prosecutor Generalsent to Belarus a request for Baumgernner's extradition . "The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office informs that the application for the issuance of a citizen Vladislav Baumertner received from the Investigative Committee to bring to criminal liability was studied at the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office. After consideration of these materials on October 22, a request was sent to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Belarus on the issuance of Baumertner to Russia," the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office said.

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 .

Baumertner is now under house arrest in Minsk . He was detained in Belarus at the end of August. Initially, the Belarusian authorities were charged with abuse of powers, but later the prosecution was retrained to the article "Theft".

Shortly before the arrest of Baumertner, Urakali, an agreement with the “Belarusian potassium company”, which was a joint trader of the Russian fertilizer and Belaruskalia producer. In Uralkali, they explained the decision by the fact that the authorities of Belarus allowed Belaruskalia to trade BKK. In turn, Belorussia was accused of the leadership of Uralkali, including Baumertner, in an attempt to seize the market for potassium.