TATNEFT Launders Money

Columnist Emin Colasan told NTV channel Wednesday morning that “The Ankara 10th Court stopped the sale of Tupras at a price of 1 billion 300 million dollars. If you attempt to construct a second Tupras, it will cost 5 billion dollars.“Tatneft, that won the tender, is probably using laundered money and no authority has so far denied this.” In his article entitled “The Tupras Scandal” said that “There are only two golden-producingEnterprises in Turkey: Tupras and the National Lottery. “Tupras is a giant enterprise. The biggest company of Turkey. It imports oil, refines and sells it. Its annual return is 13 billion dollars. Its profit before tax is 660 trillion TL. It transferred 8 billion dollars to the Treasury up to now. Its insurance value is 4.4 billion dollars. Its net profit last year, was 300 mililon dollars. “Tupras is the biggest refinery company of Turkey and 7th biggest refinery of Europe. IT holds 86 % of the crude oil process capacity of Turkey... IT has no market problem, sales problem or any rival. It has no problem of a loss or earning less. It is a giant. The only power of the market. It has no burden on the state budget, to the contrary is an enormous source of income for the state.“Under the name “Privatization” AKP attempted to sell this giant enterprise at 1.3 billion dollars and only two companies made offers. There had been no bargain no negotiation! Tupras was handed to a Turkish-Russian group without any auction, and by violating public interest rules. “Besides all these, Tupras is a strategic institution. If Turkey enters a strategic period or a crisis or war erupts, we shall be at the mercy of a Russian company to process almost all of our petrochemical and fuel oil products. Maybe our aircraft will not take off and our tanks will not operate.“The Efremov company which won the bid together with Zorlu, does not exist. Its headquarters address in Germany, is in fact a house. It is registered in Virgin and Ceyman islands, a haven of tax evaders and money launderers. “So, if this money comes, where from will this be? Will it be the money of the Mafi or laundered money? No one knows..“The Petrol Is trade Union appealed the decision to hand Tupras to these companies. The Ankara 10th Corut decided to stop the sale of the enterprise. But some people are whispering: “There is no need to worry. We shall have this ruling reversed. We did the same for State Monopolies., Tupras will be sold as we like it.” “ “We shall see!” MEDICINE PRICES About the reduction planned by the government in medicine prices in June, Colasan said “If a 80 % increase was to be made, who has imposed the 80 % surplus on us before? Why not, the prices of basic goods reduced too? “TERROR About terror in Turkey, Colasan said “Terror started reviving in the Southeast. This should not be overlooked. In 1985 the (PKK) raids on Eruh and Semdinli were not deemed not to escalate, but the opposite happened.” �