Rosneft filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Energy for 60 billion rubles

The subsidiary of Rosneft Verkhnechonskneftegaz filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Energy and Rosnedram, in which he is trying to challenge the decision of the departments not to adopt documents for the provision of benefits for the Verkhnechionsky deposit for 2011-2013, submitted by the hopping number in early 2015.

A similar lawsuit against the Ministry of Energy and Rosnedram was also filed by Rosneft and RN-Holding, in which VCG is a third party, Interfax reports.

Representatives of the Ministry of Energy believe that Rosneft is trying to abuse the right to receive benefits, since in case of winning the company will receive customs payments from a budget of more than 60 billion rubles.

“Verkhnechonskneftegaz” from 2011 to May 2013, while the norms on the provision of a preferential duty for this field were in force, did not submit the necessary documents for its receipt.

Documents are submitted for confirmation, in particular, the compliance of oil of a particular field with the requirements for the physical and chemical composition. Exporters "Verkhnechonskneftegaz" applied the general rate, since they did not have confirmation of the conformity of the physicochemical properties of oil.

But now the VCHN has provided the Ministry of Energy and Rosnedram with the entire package of documents. The company needs to get confirmation of oil conformity from departments in order to contact the customs authorities later, said the representative of the ICGG.

He emphasized that in accordance with the law, the company has the right to challenge tax issues for three years. “We met these terms,” he said in court.

Representatives of the Ministry of Energy and Rosnedr, in turn, explained that the departments did not even consider Rosneft’s request: “By the time of the appeal, 2015 was already in 2015. And according to the current procedure, the applicant had to submit documents for compliance in 2011-2013 no later than the 10th day of each month, the previous month for which the benefit was granted, said the representative of the Ministry of Energy. He asks to provide a benefit a year and a half after the bet stopped acting. "

“I believe that the applicant abuses the right and, using certain mechanisms, wants to recognize the actions of the Ministry of Energy and Rosnedr illegal, get confirmation of oil conformity and then receive customs payments from the budget in the amount of 60 billion rubles,” the representative of the ministry emphasized.

The court accepted the case file for consideration and appointed the next meeting on the ICG ISCU for June 2. The consideration of the Rosneft and RN-Holding claim for the Ministry of Energy and Rosnedram was scheduled for May 14.

Rosneft in March 2013 closed the purchase of TNK-BP shares from the British BP and the AAR Russian consortium. Earlier, TNK -BP Holding owned 74% of VCG shares, Rosneft - 25.94%. Thus, Rosneft increased the share of participation in the VCG from 25.94% to 99.94%.

Verkhnechonskneftegaz owns a license for the Verkhnechonsky oil and gas condensate field (Katanga district of the Irkutsk region), where he began industrial oil production in the fall of 2008. NGKM reserves as of January 1, 2012: oil in category C1 - 153.307 million tons, C2 - 49.829 million tons; Gas in category C1 - 15.58 billion cubic meters, C2 - 70.322 billion cubic meters.