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(From The Moscow Times)
TNK-BP faced more bureaucratic hurdles Tuesday when labor authorities announced an investigation into purported employment violations and fined the company 41,000 rubles ($1,750) and the Federal Tax Service demanded detailed information on BP secondees.
The State Labor Inspectorate said in a statement that its latest investigation was the result of a failure by TNK-BP managers to convince officials that the company had properly dealt with violations found in a surprise inspection.
The tax service had ordered the company to hand over foreign secondees' documents verifying business trips, time sheets and copies of passport pages showing foreign travel, company spokesman Vladimir Bobolyov said.
TNK-BP must submit the information, covering a two-year period from January 2006 to December 2007, within 10 days or face penalties, he said.
"First of all this is not a tax claim, it's a request for additional information about secondees," Bobolyov said, adding that the company would comply with the order.
Facing increasing pressure from the state through government inspections and raids, one of the ...