OAO Gazprom, Russia’s biggest company, was stuck with record export duty payments in May as Ukraine imported more gas without paying for it.
Gazprom paid 61.9 billion rubles ($1.8 billion) on all its exports, data on the Treasury’s website show, almost 60 percent more than the same month in 2013. Most of the surplus stemmed from deliveries to NAK Naftogaz Ukrainy, a government official said, asking not to be identified because the information isn’t public.
