The government must disclose income Sechin, Yakunin and Miller – RBC

The government must disclose income Sechin, Yakunin and Miller – RBC

President of” Rosneft “Igor Sechin and CEO of OAO” Gazprom “Alexei Miller (left to right)

Photo: RIA Novosti

Among those government decree obliges disclose their income on the Internet – RZD President Vladimir Yakunin, President of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin and the head of “Gazprom” Alexey Miller.

Just a list approved by government decree №883 dated October 7, 2013, includes the heads of more than 60 organizations set up to carry out the tasks assigned to the Russian government. Among them are “Transneft”, “Zarubezhneft”, “Aeroflot – Russian Airlines”, “Rosneftegaz”, “Mail of Russia».

The Resolution came on 18 December. That same day, during the traditional press conference, President Vladimir Putin said that he did not know how much gets the head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin. “I do not know, but I know that our employees of large companies receive a very solid money,” – said the head of state.

Commenting on this decision, Vice President of Public Relations of “Rosneft” Mikhail Leontiev told RBC that the company does not intend to disclose the income of their top managers before the end of next year. “At the end of next year we will make a decision on the disclosure of income of the first persons of the company. According to this year no one demanded. Year end – let’s see, “- he said.

« Russian Railways always executes orders of the government, “- said the representative of RBC. However, he did not comment on whether the head of the monopoly Vladimir Yakunin publish your income tax return online. Source RBC Railways said that the decision of the government need to carefully study and only then make some conclusions.

The representative of the « Gazprom » has not yet responded to the RBC request.

In June of this year « Rosneft » said it would not follow the example of “Transneft”, “Rossetti” FGC UES “Zarubezhneft “” SCF “KLA and” Rostelecom “and will not publish the declaration of income Igor Sechin, as well as other senior managers and members of their families. “Vedomosti” company officials said then that the requirements of Presidential Decree of July 8, 2013 “anti-corruption” apply only “on the state-owned companies (corporations) and other organizations, by federal law,” and “Rosneft” not one of them.

In July 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “anti-corruption” is obliged to disclose the income of certain categories of Russians. In particular, the decree was found that the state-owned and state-owned corporation established under the federal laws required to post information about income, expenses, assets and liabilities of material nature of their leaders on their official websites, as well as provide these data all-Russian mass media.

In July 2013 the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev issued in pursuance of the provisions of the decree decree ordered the executives of 29 Russian state companies to publish information about their income and assets. In October 2013 a new government decree a list of companies whose executives are required to report their income, was expanded to 63, and it was included including “Rosneft”. In early May 2014 in this list were added VTB, Sberbank and the Federal Fund for Housing Development.