The committee of the customs control of the Kazakh Ministry of Finance
did not find any instances of bribing customs officials by oil corporations,
Interfax reports.
The international consortium Karachaganak Petrolium Operating (BG
Group 32.5%, Eni 32.5%, Chervon 20%, Lukoil 15%) is developing the oil and
gas field in Karachaganak.
In June the Wall Street Journal passed on information that the members of
the consortium regularly pay Kazakh customs to get a tolerant
attitude towards imprecise documents.
In May, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said that the Milan
prosecutor's office could forbid Agip Kco (daughter company of Eni) from
working in Kazakhstan because it is suspected of bribing Timur Kulibayev,
the son-in-law of Nursultan Nazarbayev.
