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Reuters: Pdvsa mueve a Rusia la cuenta para ventas de empresas mixtas
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/economia/reuters-pdvsa-mueve-rusia-cuenta-para-ventas-empresas-mixtas_270204

Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) informó a los presidentes de las empresas mixtas que los futuros pagos por las exportaciones de crudo serán depositados en la institución bancaria rusa Gazprombank.

El objetivo de esta medida es esquivar las sanciones económicas impuestas por Estados Unidos, de acuerdo al documento y a lo informado por fuentes a Reuters.

Las empresas afectadas por esta medida deberán notificar a sus clientes que serán abonados, en dólares o euros, en la nueva cuenta bancaria en Moscú, así lo indica una carta firmada por vicepresidente de Finanzas de Pdvsa, Fernando de Quintal.

Fuentes cercanas al sector petrolero aseguraron que después de las sanciones financieras impuestas por la administración de Donald Trump, presidente de EE UU, los socios extranjeros deben confirmarle a Pdvsa que continuarán en los proyectos.

Decenas de barcos cargados de petróleo se mantienen anclados fuera de los puertos del país, debido a dichas medidas económicas. Por esta misma razón, Pdvsa podría detener su producción y mejoramiento de crudo con Equinor y Total, pues los diluyentes necesarios eran importados desde EE UU.

Is Ukraine blocking Swiss investigation of Yatsenyuk ally?
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/is-ukraine-blocking-swiss-investigation-of-yatsenyuk-ally-398159.html

A powerful Ukrainian lawmaker facing a criminal investigation by Swiss law enforcement is being protected from prosecution by Ukrainian authorities, lawmakers allege.

Member of parliament Serhiy Leshchenko, who is part of President Petro Poroshenko’s dominant faction, sounded the alarm over the case at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv on Sept. 12.

He asked why Mykola Martynenko, deputy head of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front faction, had not been ousted from his post as head of parliament’s energy committee or even investigated in Ukraine, despite Switzerland having launched a criminal investigation into him on suspected bribery.

Martynenko, widely believed to handle finances for Yatsenyuk’s faction, faces bribery accusations by Swiss prosecutors in a case that has been kept secret for nearly two years.
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Ukrainian authorities may have good reason for playing down the investigation: Swiss journalists reported that Martynenko accepted bribes from Skoda JS, a nuclear engineering company that positions itself as Czech-owned but is actually part of Russia’s OMZ engineering group – which is controlled by Kremlin-run Gazprombank.

Martynenko is accused of accepting roughly $30 million in bribes, though it was not clear how much of that allegedly came from Skoda JS.

Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung cited Swiss prosecutors as saying in March that Martynenko is suspected of taking bribes from Skoda JS in 2013 in order to grant the company a contract for the maintenance of nuclear reactors in Ukraine.

Skoda JS and Ukraine’s #Energoatom signed a memorandum of understanding on the deal last October, prompting some criticism from experts in nuclear energy.

“With this contract, the government in Kyiv wanted to create the impression among its people and the European Union that Ukraine had begun to depend on the West in the nuclear sector,” Yan Haverkamp, an expert on nuclear energy at Greenpeace, was cited as saying by Ukrainian media.

Il se révèle donc que les principaux oligarques russes ont pu vider leurs comptes bancaires chypriotes malgré les restrictions imposées par le gouvernement chypriote aux déposants ordinaires.

Andrei Akimov, the head of Russia’s Gazprombank took €2mn out of his account in Cyprus Laiki bank on 6 March, while firms controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov took out €23mn before the EU bailout imposed a haircut on depositors one week ago, according to Haravghi, a Cypriot communist-party-linked newspaper.

▻http://euobserver.com/tickers/119670

Cyprus president Nicos Anastasiades is facing pressure after media reports that a legal firm managed by his son-in-law transferred €21mn out of Laiki Bank days before its collapse.

▻http://euobserver.com/tickers/119670

Le gaz serait-il la « lueur au bout du tunnel » pour Chypre ?
▻http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/energie-environnement/20130319trib000754779/chypre-voit-une-lueur-au-bout-du-tunnel-ses-reserves-de-gaz-naturel.html

C’est en tous cas ce que laisse envisager la proposition d’aide adressée par la banque russe Gazprombank, créée au début des années 1990 par le géant gazier public russe Gazprom pour fournir des services financiers à l’industrie gazière. L’établissement financier, ainsi détenu à 41% par Gazprom, aurait proposé de soutenir financièrement Chypre selon le quotidien russe Vedomosti, qui cite une source interne à la banque. Le montant de ce soutien reste pour l’heure inconnu. Mais, interrogée par le journal russe, l’économiste Julia Tsepliaeva de BNP Paribas a estimé qu’à elle seule Gazprombank ne pouvait fournir à Chypre qu’un crédit maximum de trois milliards de dollars au vu de son capital et de la réglementation.

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