The press release published by Gazprom on Monday afternoon, just nine lines long: The Russian state-controlled gas company has fired the two most important representative of, the company’s CEO Alexei Miller. For the international business, responsible Alexander Medvedev and Valery Golubjow, who was responsible for the domestic business, and trade in Belarus, you need to go. In addition, the gas production Department head Vsevolod Cherepanov loses his Post. It is the first major reconstruction in the case of Gazprom since 2011.
Medvedev and Golubjow sat for one and a half decades to your Post, you were practically in collaboration with Gazprom CEO Miller in their positions. Measured by the parting words of the group were very distant. Medvedev has not received even a word of thanks. Gazprom said only that he would now devote his work in an international Organisation and at the head of the St. Petersburg football club “Zenit”. Golubjow received from Miller, at least, the thanks for “many years of fruitful cooperation for the benefit of Gazprom”. On demand of Russian journalists, it was said, only that there is no criticism of the two Redundant.
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As news about the personnel policy of Gazprom are sparse, triggered the change in the Gazprom-top Russian media speculation. The respected business daily “Kommersant” on Monday, the decision to have no “principled character”. The influence of Medvedev in the group have weakened since the start of 2014, its real-are not fully been made in the last years, writes the newspaper referring to not named sources in the group. The finish Golubjows had been expected for some time.
Alexander Medvedev was in 17 years for the foreign business of Gazprom in charge.Photo: Natalia Kolesnikova, AFP
The Kremlin distant Internet newspaper RBC wants to learn from a former Gazprom managers, Medvedev as Golubjow had been for at least three years in decisions on the operational side of the business involved. Their business would have long since taken on other on the Board. As a successor for Medvedev, Jelena Burmistrowa, since 2014, the head of Gazprom Export.
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RBC’s dismissal of the Gazprom Manager brings in a connection with a scandal that rocked the political scene in Russia currently. It is a question of the embezzlement of the equivalent of 400 million euros, Gazprom’s funds. At the end of January, the Russian Senator Up Araschukow was taken during a meeting of the Russian Senate. A few hours later the police appeared at his father. Araschukow junior is the General Director of a gas company in southern Russia, the father had a consulting contract with a regional subsidiary of Gazprom Together with accomplices, you should have not diverted illegally to Gas supplies. Up Araschukow is also accused in 2010 of two murders.
