Britain Liquidates Russian Oil Companies' Fraudulent 'Clones'
Several Russian energy companies have won a battle against an unusual enemy: their UK-based “clones.”
The oil and gas companies Transneft, Tatneft, Lukoil, and Surgutneft have convinced British authorities to annul the clones' registration, according to documents published by the British Supreme Court and the state business registry.
The Gazprom Neft oil company also had its clone annulled, a company representative told the Vedomosti newspaper.
The British clones were all fake corporations — formally registered under the names of the Russian companies' top executives, but with no relation to the real firms. Legal experts suspect they were established as part of a scam to sign contracts and receive monetary advances from gullible business partners.
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What a scam. It really makes one wonder about the amount of crime, probably organized that would do these things and whom exactly did this kind of filing for these fake corporations.
