“Lukoil” will decide the price of $ 700 million on the future of his Romanian refineries – BFM.Ru

"Lukoil" will decide the price of $ 700 million on the future of his Romanian refineries – BFM.Ru

If the company closes, Romania will not get the money

The Russian company “Lukoil” to Friday to take a final decision on the future of its refineries Petrotel in Romania, whose assets were arrested after suspected tax evasion. This statement was made vice-president of the oil company, Vladimir Nekrasov, who arrived in Romania for talks with Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, the agency Agerpres.

The Director-General Petrotel Andrei Bogdanov is suspected of causing damage to the 230 million euros through tax evasion and money laundering, said the prosecutor’s office of the Romanian city of Ploiesti, where the refinery.

«Our

strategic stocks of oil and oil products are locked, enterprise activity stopped. (…) We made a proposal to revise the decision by the authorities, “said Nekrasov. He denied the accusations, stressing that the company has to pay this year, $ 700 million of taxes to the Romanian state.

According to him, this $ 700 million can be considered as a sufficient guarantee. If the refinery is closed, the state does not get the money, because the work of the enterprise will be stopped completely.