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Investigators came to TNK - BP
The Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was surprised by reports of the search, the representative of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrei Pilipchuk denies the fact of investigative actions in TNK-BP. According to him, the investigating authorities sent a request to the company, and also invited two representatives of TNK-BP to give explanations. “This is the usual work that we are doing every day,” the Deb representative emphasized. Pilipchuk emphasized that "the operational composition was today and did not go anywhere." “We still have no complaints about the company, there are also no criminal cases against representatives of the company,” he said in an interview with ITAR -TASS . The department expressed the bewilderment of information that appeared in the media about the conduct of investigative actions in the company's office.
Investigators of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District are conducted as part of the investigation of the Sidanko case in Moscow, the head of the Sidanko case, RIA Novosti said the head of the press service of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry, Irina Dudukina. In TNK-BR, they refused to comment on the reports about searches. “We officially refuse comments,” said the company press secretary Alexander Shadrin.
In turn, the head of the press service of the Department of Economic Security (Deb) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Colonel Andrei Pilipchuk, said that on Wednesday in the Deb for a summer residence
The explanations were called two employees of TNK-Br. In which case they were called, the interlocutor of the agency did not specify. “Without comment,” said the representative of the Deb. According to him, the DEB does not currently carry out other operational-search actions against the company TNK-BP.
Until 2001, the main shareholder of Sidanko was HC Interros. The Alfa Group consortium, Access Industries and Renova groups were bought from Interros and Cantupan Foundation of 84.2% of Sidanko shares in August 2001. Another 10% of the shares belonged to BP. In 2000, oil production of the company amounted to 9.3 million tons, processing - 3.7 million tons. The main mining enterprises of Sidanko in 2000 were Montenegrinft, Variganneftegaz, Variganneft, Saratovneftegaz, Udmurtneft, processing - Angarskaya NHK and Khabarovsk refinery.
Against the background of news about the searches of the TNK-BP promotion in the system of indicative quotations of the RTS-BOARD on Wednesday, it was offered at a price of 10% below Tuesday. According to the director of the analytical department "Ist Commerz" Alexander Fetisov, the news of the seizure of documents in the TNK-BP office is only a temporary negative for quotations of the company's shares. In his opinion, TNK-BP papers, however, like the shares of most companies in the Russian oil and gas sector, are now underestimated. "These papers have a high growth potential. And as for the search, many Russian companies passed through this," he notes.
The authorized capital "TNK-BP Holding", created for the consolidation of Russian TNK-BP assets, is 16.298 billion rubles and is divided into 15.848 billion ordinary and 450 million privileged shares. "TNK-VR Holding", registered in the Tyumen region, unites most of the Assets of TNK-BP, which on September 30, 2005 completed the voluntary exchange of shares of 14 "daughters" for shares of the holding.
In December 2005, the company completed the second stage of corporate restructuring, joining the TNK, Sidanko and Onako holding. It did not include Ukrainian TNK-BP enterprises, Rusia Petroleum, the share of TNK-BP in Slavneft and a gas station network in Moscow, owned by STBP Holdings. The minority shareholders of the attached "daughters" received about 5% "TNK-BP Holding". The remaining shares are controlled on a parity basis of BP and consortium "Alfa groups", Access Industries and
Renova groups.
TNK-BP was created in 2003 as a result of the merger of TNCs, Sidanko, Onaco and the Assets of the British BP in Russia and Ukraine. The company conducts exploration and production of oil in Western Siberia, in the Volga-Ural region, in Eastern Siberia and Sakhalin. In 2006, TNK-BP Holding paid more than 30 billion rubles on tax claims for 2002-2003. Earlier, the Federal Tax Service following the results of the tax audit of the use of TNK -VR - TNK and Sidanko - income tax discounts in 2002-2003 considered that they did not pay 40.4 billion rubles and 12.7 billion rubles to the budget, respectively.
At the end of February, the investigating unit at the Glavka of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Central Federal District conducted the seizure of documents in the office of another large Russian oil company - Slavneft, which is owned by TNK -BP and Gazprom Neft. Then it was reported that the seizure of documents is carried out as part of the investigation of a criminal case, instituted in November 2007, in the fact of suspicion of non -payment of taxes in 2003, one of the companies registered in Kalmykia, which was subsequently acquired by Slavneft.
Slavneft then noted that the company annually conducts an audit of financial statements according to international standards, as well as planned audits by tax authorities. Moreover, for the period from 2003 to 2007, according to the results of the audit and tax audits, Slavneft did not receive such comments.
