Prosecutor to press more charges against Saratovneftegaz (Part 2)
NIZHNY NOVGOROD. May 21 (Interfax) - The Saratov city prosecutor's office will in the next few days press
charges against Stanislav Tyurev, general director of Sidanco subsidiary Saratovneftegaz, for producing oil without
licenses at four oil fields, Andrei Morozov, an investigator at the prosecutor's office, told Interfax.
Sidanco is owned by the TNK-BP oil major.
The prosecutor's office said Saratovneftegaz had been producing oil at four deposits in the Saratov region
without licenses since 2000. It claims the unlicensed oil production cost the state more than 160 million rubles.
Morozov said that as early as Monday Tyurev could be charged under Article 171 Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code for
illegal entrepreneurship, Article 255 for violating rules for environmental protection and the use of subsurface
resources, and Article 201 Chapter 2 for abuse of office. Morozov said the case was opened against Morozov on May
13.
Alexander Kosyak, former general of Saratovneftegaz, was arrested on charges of illegal entrepreneurship on May 19.
Kosyak headed the company from 2000 to 2002.
The Saratov prosecutor in January this year opened a criminal case for violations of mineral licensing legislation
allegedly committed by senior officials of the region's Main Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
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