Russian Government asks Tatneft and Gazprom to stop supplies to Belarus

The Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has recommended Tatneft and Gazpromto stop the supply of oil products to Belarus after the complaint of the Federal Customs Service, which found suspicious the grown in the past year export to the country, a member of the Customs Union. Supplying oil products to Belarus the oil companies don’t pay any excise duty or export duty, and the Customs Service is concerned with the budget losses. However, according to the Kommersant’s information, the amount of the loss could not make up more than 2 billion rubles. - a small amount as compared to the total volume of the oil companies’ payments.

Tatneft and Gazprom were recommended to stop the supply of oil products to Belarus, the protocol by results of the Government Commission on the FEC, held in mid-April, informs. The Ministry of Finance, the Federal Customs Service and the Ministry of Energy were instructed to assess the potential losses for the budget from the export, which increased last year. A spokesman for the chairman of the Government Commission Arkady Dvorkovich Alia Samigullina confirmed to the Kommersant the existence of such recommendation. Tatneft didn’t provide a comment, Gazprom also pointed out that it had stopped the supply, and their growth was caused by the economic attractiveness.