Lukoil subsidiary in Minsk rejects Lukashenko`s human trafficking accusations 11:13, 21/04/2005
Lukoil-Belorussiya, the Minsk-based subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil, has denied that its employees are involved in human trafficking, an allegation made by Aleksandr Lukashenko in his annual address to the National Assembly on Tuesday.
The Belarusian leader then said that there were a lot of “phonies” involved in trafficking Belarusian women in foreign diplomatic missions in Minsk, especially in the embassies of East European countries and in certain subsidiaries of foreign companies. “We discovered this in Lukoil above all, I will be frank,” Mr. Lukashenko said. “They came here to process oil but were trading in our girls instead, in bulk, in gangs. Now they are being questioned at him [Belarusian Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov].”
In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, the Lukoil subsidiary in Minsk said that “there is no information that people working with Lukoil-Belorussiya have something to do with instances mentioned in media reports.”
“The foreign company Lukoil-Belorussiya operates on the territory of the Republic of Belarus in accordance with the charter of the enterprise,” the statement said.
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