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Police have retrieved documents at head office of
the TNK-BP company in Arbat Street, Moscow, within the framework of the
criminal case over the SIDANKO company, a law-enforcement official told
Itar-Tass.
"The seizure of documents was carried out in
connection with the on-going investigation into the criminal case
against the SIDANKO company," Investigations Committee representative
Svetlana Dudukina said.
Dudukina made it clear that police had only
retrieved documents, and that the media reports on searches at TNK-BP
office were inaccurate.
TNK-BP was founded in 2003, following the merger
of assets of BP and the AAP (Alfa-Group, Access and Renova)
consortium.
AAP contributed its packages of shares of the TNK
International, ONAKO and SIDANKO, and its stakes in RUSIA Petroleum
(the holder of the license to develop the Kovykta gas condensate fields
and the Verkhnechonskoye oil and gas deposit) and the gas producing
company Rospan Intentional, western Siberia.
BP contributed with its shares in SIDANKO and
RUSIA Petroleum, and a package of shares of the Moscow network of
petrol stations. In January 2004, BP and AAP concluded an agreement on
adding BP's 50-percent stake in Slavneft to TNK-BP.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against SIDANKO over "deliberate bankruptcy" in 1999.
TNK-BP owns some 50 percent of Slavnet company
shares. In February, Interior Ministry investigators seized documents
at the Slavneft office, within the framework of the probe into the
criminal case (opened in November 2007) over suspected non-payments of
taxes by one of the companies in 2003. The company in question,
registered in the Kalmyk republic, was later purchased by Slavneft.
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