Moscow. 15 Nov. INTERFAX.RU IN the work of law enforcement, there are mistakes, they should be clearly informed of the case of ex-Minister of economic development Alexei Ulyukayev, said former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.
“We understand that the even law enforcement, there are mistakes, we do not have full confidence in some of the steps. I know the experiences of other officials that were released after the arrest and all charges against them withdrawn. We have such practice in Russia. In this regard, we are now waiting for further steps and clarifications from the Investigative Committee”, – Kudrin said at the Exchange forum of the Moscow stock exchange in new York.
“the Arrest of such a high official who was in charge of economic policy, interaction with business, is a great tragedy, a serious event, it is, of course, affects the functioning of the government. This is a serious failure in the government”, – said A. Kudrin.
“While we don’t understand how it happened, why it happened in the territory of Rosneft. It is hard to imagine that someone with Rosneft wanted to argue,” said Kudrin, adding that there are a number of uncertainties that I would like to overcome.
“I don’t see a political motive and anti-privatization. Rosneft is primarily a state company, the decision to privatize was taken by the state. The government fully participated in it. I think that the speaker has not made a final decision about the “Bashneft”. What he hadn’t had the position, the final decision or the Prime Minister or the President. I have serious doubts that the speaker could seriously interfere with or affect the decision. What he actually wanted to get some sort of reward – I do have questions,” said Kudrin on the issue of the arrest of the speaker as a possible attack on the liberal camp, which tries to reduce the role of the state in the economy and in favour of privatization.
Responding to a question from the moderator of the conference, not whether he believes that Rosneft is currently invested with too much power, Kudrin said: “Rosneft” has its usual power as a large state-owned company, we “Gazprom” also has a lot of power. We and other public companies have their industries sufficient power. No other power, they, in addition to its economic power, do not have”.
He again spoke out against the fact that public companies buy private large assets or any other public company.
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