Given that BP is having trouble with its local partners, it was predictable that the authorities would begin the harrassment.
Tax inspections, visa difficulties, the environment investigation will come next. All related or just a coincidence?
Bad governance in Russia.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
See article:
Russian tax officials yesterday made fresh demands, requesting unprecedented levels of information on a group of foreigners seconded to TNK-BP only hours after Gordon Brown raised official harassment of the company with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at the G8 meeting in Japan.
The officials wanted time sheets, certification of business trips and passport copies showing foreign travel covering a two-year period, from January 2006 to December 2007, the Guardian reports.
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