LUKOIL threatens Mikhail Leontiev with the courts

Partner of the Law Firm "YUST" Alexander Bolomatov commented for the RBC newspaper on the news that LUKOIL threatened Mikhail Leontiev, the Spokesman of Rosneft, who had voiced his doubts concerning the Company’s victory in the tender for the Eastern Taimyr plot: "Declarations of alleged breaches during the tender by themselves cannot be a ground for moving a claim to protect business reputation. If LUKOIL believes that a negative information about it was divulgated, the Company may react. I doubt that Leontiev may be accused of disclosing confidential information: the organizer of the tender, Rosnedra, could take up such obligation, and not a participant".

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