Russian Investigators Find Suspects in Oil Contamination Case
- Six people are accused of crude theft worth at least $15,400
- Four have been detained, two more are wanted: investigators
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Russia’s Investigative Committee identified six suspects in the contamination of millions of barrels of crude, which shut down pipeline shipments to some European countries.
The suspects, including Nefteperevalka OJSC Chief Executive Officer Svetlana Balabay and deputy Rustam Khusnutdinov, repeatedly stole crude volumes worth at least 1 million rubles ($15,340) between August 2018 and April 2019, the investigators alleged.