RusUkroEnergo stays in the news


"We'll summon everybody who one way or another is involved in this case, despite his or her former official posts in the government and other agencies, because huge financial losses were caused to the state," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday. Khoroshkovsky said that this "trap for the Ukrainian state" had been created deliberately.

Thats the head of the SBU,  Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, whose investigating the Tymoshenko’s governments actions during last year’s gas dispute with Gazprom/Russia. RusUkroEnergo is still in the news, a year after the Tymoshenko tried to remove it as a gas middleman. The former head of customs, Anatoly Makarenko,  has been detained by the SBU. Meanwile, a Stockholm arbitration tribunal decided in favor of RusUkroEnergo, claiming that Ukrainian state (Naftogaz, actually)  must compensate the firm for breaking its agreement with RusUkroEnergo. The decision requires that Naftogaz return 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas, plus an earlier  decision requires financial compensation of $200 milllion . The head of the presidential administration, Sergey Levochkin,  has already ruled out compensating the company in money or gas. Tymoshenko defended her government’s actions.

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