Kumtor top managers and foreign workers out of Kyrgyzstan: Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union

AKIPRESS.COM - Vice-presidents of Kumtor Gold Company JSC, most of the middle managers, as well as ordinary expatriate and foreign workers have left Kyrgyzstan, said Chairman of the Mining and Metallurgical Trade Union of Kyrgyzstan Eldar Tadjibaev. President of Kumtor Gold Company Deon Badenhorst, who planned to return to Kyrgyzstan from a business trip, is also abroad.
Chairman of Kumtor's Trade Union Committee Kalysbek Ryspaev linked these measures with the intention to protect foreign managers and specialists after the bill on external management in Kumtor in case of environmental breach passed three reading in Parliament and court's fine for $3 billion for environmental damage.