Investor Øystein Stray Spetalen and the management of his company Ferncliff is summoned to witness questioning in connection with the sale of a rig in Ukraine.
It is Ukraine’s prosecutors as through a rogatory has asked Norwegian authorities for help to witness the interrogation, writes Dagens Næringsliv .
The prosecution believes that the state has lost 3.2 billion after having acquired two rigs. Spetalen wholly owned investment company Ferncliff was selling off one rig.
– I am commenting nothing, whatever you ask for, says Spetalen.
– I have no comment, CEO and partner Martin Nes in Ferncliff.
Prosecutors want help to get to the bottom of the matter. Neither Ferncliff management, director or owner is suspect.
20 questions about the sale of a rig will be key. Prosecutors in Ukraine want to know details about the trade, who were real buyer of the unit, who in Ferncliff who was involved in the sale, as well as other relevant factors that may shed some light on where the money ended up.
The investigation revolves around the embezzlement of state assets of nearly $ 400 million, about 3.2 billion, related to the purchase of two rigs in 2011. The buyer of the two oil rigs were the state-owned Ukrainian oil company Naftogaz and its subsidiaries. The rigs were sold to straw companies to a high market price, and further more expensive on the road to the real Ukrainian buyers. The interlayer, which will be several billion, have disappeared along the way.
(NTB)
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