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Lukashenka is ready to sell Baumgertner 19.09.2013
The dictator called Uralkali’s management swindlers and the company itself a bankrupt.
The Belarusian ruler considers the extradition of Vladislav Baumgertner possible, “if in the Russian Federation they treat him in accordance with the law”.
“If Russian investigators are interested in the extradition of a Russian citizen, who was detained by us, then I do not see any special obstacles. We are absolutely not holding onto him”, -Lukashenka claimed on Thursday at a meeting on economic and foreign policy issues, Interfax reports.
A deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was invited to the meeting among others.
“If they do actually treat him in accordance with the law. The damage is colossal there, it can be seen with a naked eye. If they need it, we should not impede that”, - Lukashenka noted. At the same time he emphasized: “Some swindler should not become an obstacle in the relations of two states. It is too much honor to anyone”.
The ruler claimed that “everything possible should be done in order for us to investigate this conflict together with the Russians as well as what stands behind it”. “There is a huge multibillion amount of money behind it that Belarus and Russian lost, some high-ranked swindlers stand behind it in the Russian Federation”, - the dictator said. He also added that “if some swindlers appear in Belarus and the Russians ask to take them to Russia, we will not hold onto the citizens of Belarus and will immediately extradite them”. “The main thing is the truth. If you are guilty, you must be held responsible”, - Lukashenka emphasized.
The dictator claimed that “controllers and investigators should deal with all that”. “You can find the real origins of this whole dark story in Russia”, - Lukashenka noted. In this regard he ordered to pass all the necessary materials, which would become the basis for an audit, including by Russia’s Chamber of Accounts. Apart from that he reminded that the Prosecutor General’s office of the Russian Federation also addressed the Belarusian colleagues requesting the respective information. He ordered Belarus’ Prosecutor General to send the materials. “By no means should we conceal anything”, - Lukashenka stated.
Even more so that it is already clear, according to him: “A much larger damage was caused to Russia than to Belarus”. “The damage, caused to Belarus, should be compensated in full. Everything stolen from us must be returned. Up to the last penny”, - Belarus’ ruler claimed.
Before a meeting with Putin
The potash scandal should affect neither the relations of Belarus and Russia, nor the relations of the presidents of the two countries, Lukashenka believes.
“The potash scandal should become a stumbling block neither for the relations of the states nor of the presidents. You know how difficult it is to restore the relations, we cannot let them get spoiled again”, - the dictator claimed.
Lukashenka emphasized that “those, who hoped to the potash problems to undermine the relations of the two states, severely miscalculated”. “We stood and keep standing on the premise that no swindlers or crooks will be able to drive a wedge in between the two presidents and two peoples”. – he stated.
“They say: what did Lukashenka want to show?! Lukashenka showed one thing: no one is allowed to wipe their feet on us”, - the dictator specified. We are a sovereign independent state, we never create problems to our neighbors and the Russians first of all. But we will not let some separate swindlers whether from the West or the East to wipe their feet on us”, - he stated.
Uralkali is a bankrupt…
Lukashenka claimed that the OJSC Uralkali was a bankrupt and ordered the respective agencies to inform London and Moscow stock exchanges about that. The company’s shares are trade on these stock exchanges.
“There is information that they have $12 billion on the negative side of the balance, and only two on the positive. If this is true, then it turns out that the information they spread around the world was fake. Uralkali is a public company, the shares of which are sold on London and Moscow stock exchanges. Spreading fake accounting reports and information is an international fraud”, - the ruler claimed.
“I ordered the respective agencies to contact London and Moscow stock exchanges, where their shares are sold, in order to warn them about what is actually going on so we do not end up the ones to blame later”, - Lukashenka said.
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