A project called LLC “Kharampurneftegaz” didn’t succeed with its staff. The top manager got very rich, but where were the leaders looking?
The Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Committee of the ICR for the YaNAO has finished examining a criminal case involving the Deputy General Director for Capital Construction of Kharampurneftegaz LLC. The company is controlled by NK Rosneft and BP.
The reporter understood what was happening. The Moscow Post in YaNAO.
Get to the point
The deputy general director of a Rosneft subsidiary in Yamal was under investigation in 2020 and has since been involved in new corruption cases. All accusations against the top manager involve commercial bribery.
According to investigators, the first crime occurred in June 2019, involving 2.75 million rubles. Later, two more incidents were revealed – in December 2018 and July 2019, the top manager received 2.25 million rubles from businessmen in two installments. PASMI (recognized as a foreign agent on the territory of the Russian Federation).
And now it has become known that the deputy general director for capital construction will be accused of receiving a bribe amounting to 1.5 million rubles. This time, PromStroyKontrol LLC is involved in the case, reported “Pravda UrFO”.
The accused allegedly asked the head of the firm to hand over the bribe to him. He promised to provide overall support and not impose penalties under the contract for the field development executed by PromStroyKontrol. The money was paid to the top manager in installments.
As a result, PromStroyKontrol was not implicated in a criminal case for aiding the investigation, unlike the ex-deputy director of Kharampurneftegaz.
By the way, the company “PromStroyKontrol” is currently undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. In 2021, it suffered a loss of 44 million rubles. Despite a revenue of only 7 million rubles, whereas in 2020 it was 802 million rubles.
In addition to financial issues, another interesting point about the company is that it was a supplier in two government contracts totaling 21 million rubles. Both contracts were from PJSC NK Rosneft, one in 2019 and the other in 2021.
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This means that even if the parent company knew about and encouraged PromStroyKontrol, it's strange that all these corruption stories, at least in one instance, involving a top manager, went unnoticed by higher officials.
Gas subsidiary
The Kharampurneftegaz LLC company was registered in 2012 but only began operations in 2018. It was established to develop the Kharampur field. It was expected that most employees of another Rosneft subsidiary, Kynsko-Chaselskoye Neftegaz LLC, would become part of the company.
49% of the company's authorized capital is owned by Bipi Russian Investments Limited (BP), while another 51% is owned by a Rosneft subsidiary – RN-Gas, which consolidates the gas assets of the oil company.
However, due to the political situation, the British BP, the second largest shareholder of Rosneft, announced the termination of cooperation. BP intends to sell its 19.75% stake in Rosneft with a current value of $11.5 billion, which it has owned since 2013, and also withdraw from all joint projects. Wrote about it “Kommersant”.
Obviously, this will also affect Kharampurneftegaz. By the way, judging by the data for 2020, the company’s business was not going uphill. She suffered a loss of 3 billion rubles.
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Director of the Department of Planning, Performance Management and Development of the Gas Business of Rosneft Oleg Ivanov last year told TASSthat the total production from this gas project could potentially reach 25 billion cubic meters. m of gas per year. According to him, the project may become the company’s largest gas brainchild – larger even than Rospan.
If this is true, then how is it that the top managers of Kharampurneftegaz include people who can get rich on commercial bribery of 6.5 million rubles?
Firstly, why don’t questions arise to the director of the company, Sergei Slichny? After all, he has been running the company since 2018. Doesn’t even Sechin himself follow the affairs of such promising “daughters”?
Igor Sechin did not notice the scandals around subsidiaries? A photo: ptoday.en
Back in 2020 RBC wrote that Rosneft had long ago announced the importance of the gas business and plans to produce 100 billion cubic meters. m of gas per year by 2020 (for comparison: Gazprom produces 500 billion cubic meters of gas per year), but then moved the ambitious production targets to 2022. In 2019, the company produced 67 billion cubic meters. m of gas.
This is despite the fact that Gazprom is still the only exporter and the largest supplier of gas to the domestic market.
The fact that Rosneft has long been promoting the idea of dividing Gazprom into transport and mining companies is no secret to anyone. This is due to the fact that the existing monopoly on the market prevents them from entering the world gas market.
The project will allow you to get confessions and huge amounts of money, into whose pocket they will fly incomprehensibly. Could a top manager have been able to pull off multi-million dollar cases on his own? Hardly.
There is no direct evidence, but it can be assumed that the top manager in the chain for cutting money simply remained the last one. Where the “good” went is unknown. But if such scams are being carried out at the Kharampurneftegaz company, it’s scary to think what will happen next …
