27.01.2012 17:14 Videos
Video: Salt company in Mazyr will be sold under no circumstances, official says
Salt company AAT Mazyrsol will be sold under no circumstances, Ivan Danchanka, head of the Belarusian State Food Industry Concern (Beldzyarzhkharchpram), told reporters in Minsk on Friday.
“The stance of the concern and the government is unambiguous: Mazyrsol will not be sold,” Mr. Danchanka stressed.
According to him, the Mazyr salt plant will be developed and modernized with public funds, money from the Beldzyarzhkharchpram Innovation Development Fund, and loans. Its annual production capacity is expected to increase to 500,000 tons by 2014 from 380,000 tons at present. Eighty-five percent of the output is exported, mostly to Russia, Mr. Danchanka noted.
It is Russian companies that seek to acquire the plant, he said. He linked their “unhealthy interest” to the recent arrest of the Mazyrsol director general. “Maybe, the guilt of the manager was that he had chosen a wrong policy regarding operations in the market,” Mr. Danchanka said.
“So I want to say, ‘Hands off Belarusian salt,’” he noted. “I won’t say who want to lay hands on it, but they are using foul methods.”
The Mazyrsol CEO, Mikhail Litvin, was arrested in his office in late December, when he was allegedly being handed an $8,100 bribe.
“The stance of the concern and the government is unambiguous: Mazyrsol will not be sold,” Mr. Danchanka stressed.
According to him, the Mazyr salt plant will be developed and modernized with public funds, money from the Beldzyarzhkharchpram Innovation Development Fund, and loans. Its annual production capacity is expected to increase to 500,000 tons by 2014 from 380,000 tons at present. Eighty-five percent of the output is exported, mostly to Russia, Mr. Danchanka noted.
It is Russian companies that seek to acquire the plant, he said. He linked their “unhealthy interest” to the recent arrest of the Mazyrsol director general. “Maybe, the guilt of the manager was that he had chosen a wrong policy regarding operations in the market,” Mr. Danchanka said.
“So I want to say, ‘Hands off Belarusian salt,’” he noted. “I won’t say who want to lay hands on it, but they are using foul methods.”
The Mazyrsol CEO, Mikhail Litvin, was arrested in his office in late December, when he was allegedly being handed an $8,100 bribe.
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