On Tuesday, BP called back from TNK-BP 148 Britain’s employees. The reason was the claims of Federal Migration Service related to the execution of working visas.
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TNK-BP Got Rid of FMS, 148 Brits
On Tuesday, BP called back from TNK-BP 148 Britain’s employees. The reason was the claims of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) related to the execution of working visas. In the environment of close attention to the company’s business coupled with the spying scandal, BP preferred to peacefully sort out the migration difficulties and voluntary took off the jobs.
According to the sources close to top management of TNK-BP, the matter at stake isn’t the staff employees (40 nonresident top managers are employed with the company, most of them from BP), but a group of technical experts, who were assigned to the company from BP. The claims of FMS are that being employed with BP, those nonresidents received the working invitations from another company, TNK-BP.
For TNK-BP, the visa difficulties emerged half a year ago, people in the company acknowledged, specifying that the questions of FMS have become too frequent recently. In FMS, they said they received the official inquiry about the status of TNK-BP employees from Russia’s Foreign Ministry (the press service of the latter denied the information).
But the key problem of TNK-BP today is, perhaps, the spying scandal. The agents of Russia’s Security Service raided the company’s offices and carried away files and computer information. A criminal action was initiated against TNK-BP Management employee Ilya Zaslavsky and his brother Alexander, who headed the British Council’s Alumni Club. The brothers are suspected of industrial espionage.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 26, 2008
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