Public Foundation Elge Qaitaru demands to verify the circumstances of the acquisition by JSC NC KazMunayGas.

Mr O.A. Bektenov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Asset Recovery Commission.

To the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mr B.N. Asylov.

To the Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on coun­ter­ac­tion to cor­rup­tion Mr Zhumagali A.J.

Mr D.M. Malakhov, Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Financial Monitoring.

Mr N.M. Suindikov, Chairman of the Asset Recovery Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Public Foundation “Elge Qaitaru” shares the pain and aspi­ra­tions of the strik­ing oil work­ers of the Mangistau region and con­sid­ers it nec­es­sary to find a mutu­al­ly accept­able com­pro­mise solution.

We believe that the roots of the prob­lem lie, per­haps, in the offences com­mit­ted dur­ing the acqui­si­tion in 2011 of Joint Stock Company NC “KazMunayGas” 100% par­tic­i­pa­tion inter­est in the autho­rised cap­i­tal of “Aktaunefteservice” LLP.

Cooperative KMG PKI UA, a 100% sub­sidiary of JSC NC KazMunayGas, was the direct buy­er of Aktaunefteservice LLP. The val­ue of the trans­ac­tion amount­ed to 334 mil­lion US dollars.

Aktaunefteservice LLP was a hold­ing-type organ­i­sa­tion, which owned 100% stakes in the fol­low­ing legal entities:

- OilServiceCompany LLP (well drilling, well workover and under­ground repair, chem­i­cal­i­sa­tion of oil pro­duc­tion process­es, etc., employ­ing about 3,300 people);

- OilConstructionCompany LLP (con­struc­tion and engi­neer­ing works, con­struc­tion of indus­tri­al facil­i­ties, pow­er lines, roads; instal­la­tion and dis­man­tling of drilling equip­ment, about 2,100 employees);

-OilTransportCorporation LLP (tech­no­log­i­cal trans­port at Mangistaumunaigas fields, car­go deliv­ery and trans­port of employ­ees, about 2,600 employees);

-Mangistauenergomunai LLP (oper­a­tion and main­te­nance of elec­tri­cal equip­ment of Mangistaumunaigas, employ­ing about 700 people);

-Munaytelecom LLP (telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions in the fields of Mangistaumunaigas, employ­ing about 700 people).

Earlier on the pub­licly avail­able Internet there was a pub­li­ca­tion that the real own­er of LLP “Aktaunefteservice” and accord­ing­ly the ulti­mate ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the trans­ac­tion for the amount of 334 mil­lion U.S. dol­lars is T.A. Kulibayev, for­mer at the time of the trans­ac­tion chair­man of the board of Samruk-Kazyna, which includes JSC NC “KazMunayGas”.

(https://www.compromat.ru/page_30945.htm)

If this infor­ma­tion is true, it is a direct cor­rup­tion offence.

Probably, to hide the traces of this trans­ac­tion, the man­age­ment of JSC NC KazMunayGas first organ­ised a “5/50” cam­paign, which led to a sharp decline in the real incomes of the com­pa­ny’s employ­ees with the depri­va­tion of all mea­sures of social sup­port. This was fol­lowed by a reverse pri­vati­sa­tion of the divi­sions of Aktaunefteservice LLP, which had pre­vi­ous­ly been pur­chased for $334 mil­lion. West Oil Software, whose work­ers have been on strike for more than 70 days, emerged from these actions. Although some strik­ing work­ers say they have been work­ing there for 30 years, some have had fathers and grand­fa­thers work­ing there.

Even though the statute of lim­i­ta­tions on crim­i­nal lia­bil­i­ty has not yet passed, nei­ther JSC NC “KazMunayGas”, nor the law enforce­ment agen­cies have react­ed to ear­li­er appeals by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of civ­il soci­ety regard­ing the acqui­si­tion of Aktaunefteservice LLP.

In con­nec­tion with the above, the Public Foundation Elge Qaitaru asks you to ver­i­fy the cir­cum­stances of the acqui­si­tion by JSC NC KazMunayGas of 100% of the share of par­tic­i­pa­tion in the autho­rised cap­i­tal of Aktaunefteservice LLP. Take mea­sures to recov­er 334 mil­lion US dol­lars and direct this amount to solve the prob­lems of strik­ing oil work­ers of the Mangistau region.

Director of the Public Foundation “Elge Qaitaru” O. Yerzhanov