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RosUkrEnergo is a Swiss-registered venture company that transports natural gas from Turkmenistan to East European countries. 50% of the company is owned by Gazprom, through its daughter Swiss-registered Rosgas Holding A.G., and another 50% by Swiss-registered private company Centragas Holding A.G., acting on behalf of a consortium of GDF Group〔(Official website of GDF group )〕〔(Сомнительный посредник - Демократия.Ру )〕〔(Стали известны хозяева РосУкрЭнерго )〕〔(Emerging Markets Economic Briefings )〕 owned by Dmytro Firtash and Ivan Fursin.〔(UNIAN - Nemtsov: Russian part in RosUkrEnergo looks as improper as Ukrainian one )〕 Before 2009 Russia–Ukraine gas dispute, it was the sole importer of natural gas from Gazprom reselling it to Naftogaz Ukrainy. ==History== The company was created in July 2004 in a deal by former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to replace Eural Trans Gas.〔(Nation’s gas trade has volatile history rife with murky dealings ), Kyiv Post (February 4, 2011)〕 Until 2006 the company acted as a middleman between Turkmenistan and Ukraine. The company also sells Turkmenistan gas to Poland. Due to an agreement between Gazprom and Naftogaz, from 2006 till January 2009 the company supplied all of Ukraine's natural gas imports from Russia and other Central Asian countries, in addition to Turkmenistan. On October 24, 2008 Gazprom and Ukraine's national energy company Naftogaz signed a long-term cooperation deal in which was stated that Ukraine will receive Russian natural gas directly from Gazprom and Naftogaz will be the sole importer of Russian natural gas.〔(Gazprom, Naftogaz sign long-term cooperation deal )〕 After weeks of disputes the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller and the head of Naftohaz Ukrainy Oleh Dubyna signed the 10-year agreement on natural gas supplies to Ukraine for the period of 2009-2019 on 19 January 2009.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 It was agreed that RosUkrEnergo will no longer supply all of Ukraine's natural gas imports from Russia and other Central Asian countries. A claim of a $600 million debt of Naftohaz to RosUkrEnergo was also dropped.〔 On March 4, 2009 Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Alfa special police unit searched the headquarters of Naftohaz Ukrainy in a case against officials of Naftohaz Ukrainy on embezzlement of 6.3 billion cubic meters of transit natural gas,〔(SBU Officers Leave Building Of Naftohaz On Completing Investigating Actions ), Ukrainian News Agency (March 4, 2009)〕 according to Valerii Khoroshkovskyi, first deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine, the RosUkrEnergo Company and a number of Verkhovna Rada’s deputies had filed in a claim against Naftohaz Ukrainy.〔(Khoroshkovskyi Unveils Reasons Behind RosUkrEnergo’s And Verkhovna Rada Deputies’ Claims Against Misappropriating 6.3 Billion Cubic Meters Of Gas ), Ukrainian News Agency, (March 5, 2009)〕 On March 17, 2009 a criminal case was filed against officials of the Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company on suspicion of stealing 6.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas intended for transit through Ukraine by the SBU.〔(SBU Sends Criminal Case Against Naftohaz Ukrainy Officials Accused Of Stealing 6.3 Billion Cubic Meters Of Gas To Prosecutors ), Ukrainian News Agency, (March 17, 2009)〕 On March 30, 2010 an international arbitration court in Stockholm ordered Naftohas Ukrainy to pay RosUkrEnergo around $200 million as a penalty for various breaches of supply, transit and storage contracts.〔 On June 8, 2010 the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal ordered Naftohaz to return 11 bcm of natural gas to RosUkrEnergo and that RosUkrEnergo would receive from Naftohaz a further 1.1 bcm of natural gas in lieu of RosUkrEnergo's entitlement to penalties for breach of contract.〔(Stockholm court obliges Naftogaz to return 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas to RosUkrEnergo ), Kyiv Post (June 8, 2010)〕〔(BYuT publishes documents on sales of disputed 11 billion cubic meters of gas by Gazprom to Naftogaz ), Kyiv Post (June 25, 2010)〕 On April 26, 2011 former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sued Dmytro Firtash and RosUkrEnergo in a U.S. District Court in Manhattan accusing them of "defrauding Ukraine's citizenry" by manipulating an arbitration court ruling, "undermining the rule of law in Ukraine" in connection with the 2010 international arbitration court ruling in Stockholm.〔(Ukrainian ex-PM sues gas company, businessman in US court ), Reuters (April 27, 2011)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RosUkrEnergo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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