Belarus Extradites Uralkali CEO Baumgertner to Russia

Belarus agreed to extradite OAO Uralkali chief Vladislav Baumgertner to Russia, days after a plan to change ownership of the potash producer that may end a dispute over joint global sales of the key crop nutrient.

Belarus prosecutors have handed over the biggest potash supplier’s chief executive officer, who was being held under house arrest in an apartment in the capital Minsk, to Russian authorities, the state-owned Belta news service reported, citing the national television channel Belarus 1. The decision to extradite Baumgertner was made yesterday, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said today in a statement.