Romanian prosecutors of the Anti-Organized Crime Directorate (DIICOT), the Bacau office, carried out searches in Bucharest and six counties last Friday, in a tax evasion case with a damage of over RON 9 million (EUR 1.9 million), which involves the legal representative of Lukoil Romania. The defendants allegedly built four… – Continue reading
The six individual defendants indicted in the Lukoil tax evasion and money laundering case remain under court supervision, as the Prahova Court rejected on Tuesday the defendants’ requests to have the court restriction lifted; the court ordered instead the confinement for 60 days running from August 4 to October 2…. – Continue reading
A Romanian court has rejected an appeal by the general manager and six executives of a subsidiary of Russian oil company Lukoil who have been indicted on tax evasion and money laundering charges. The Court of Appeal in Ploiesti dismissed the appeal made by general manager Andrey Bogdanov, a Russian… – Continue reading
Romanian prosecutors seized assets of Russian oil firm Lukoil worth up to 2 billion euros ($2.22 billion) in an investigation on suspicion of money laundering, a local court was quoted as saying on Wednesday by state agency Agerpres. In October of last year Romanian prosecutors, police and customs inspectors raided… – Continue reading
In 2013, STHL and its subsidiaries generated $38.6 billion in sales of crude oil, after purchasing $38.5 billion in crude and fuel products from third party and other companies from the SOCAR group. Malta has been hosting Azerbaijan’s state oil company (SOCAR) since 2007 thanks to its favourable tax regime… – Continue reading
Romanian authorities have ordered the closure of Lukoil’s Petrotel refinery in Ploiesti, Romania. Oleg Malginov, Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania, announced that the oil refinery had been closed sue to an investigation for tax evasion and money laundering. Malginov, as cited by ITAR-TASS, pointed out that the halt… – Continue reading
Romanian authorities have ordered the closure of Lukoil’s Petrotel refinery in Ploiesti, Romania. Oleg Malginov, Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Romania, announced that the oil refinery had been closed sue to an investigation for tax evasion and money laundering. Malginov, as cited by ITAR-TASS, pointed out that the halt… – Continue reading
Romanian prosecutors from the Ploiesti Court of Appeal Prosecutor’s Office conducted several searches at the Petrotel refinery in Ploiesti, which is owned by Russian group Lukoil. The searches are part of a tax evasion and money laundering case in which the damage to the state is about EUR 200 million,… – Continue reading
