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There are suspicions about possible attempts to steal Latvias Naftas Tranzits‘ (LNT) cash worth millions by means of issuing a loan to Oleg Stepanov’s company Topmar.

It is said that Stepanov is trying to make sure LNT Supervisory Board agrees to pay Topmar the share belonging to Ventbunkers/Ventrans Riga. This is the reason for the convened LNT  Supervisory Board meeting.

It should be mentioned that this kind of scheme was done already last year: it circumvented the property arrests presented in Lembergs’ case.

Stepanov’s need for LNT’s money within the Ventspils transit business is explained with both the need to maintain the millionaire’s expensive place of residence and the political ambitions in expectation of change in government, for the realization of which Ventspils transit business players traditionally use company resources. In the last half-year, there have been signs that Stepanov has formed an alliance with Aivars Lembergs, on behalf of which he conducted negotiations for extensive settlement during the so-called Ventspils transit war.

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The BNN article in English language starts as follows:Under the title "Prosecutor General's Office too weak for Lembergs" BNN reports:

The accused Latvian politician Aivars Lembergs seems to be gradually recovering his control over the Latvian oil business. His moves remain unnoticed and are partly approved by inactions of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

Ventspils millionaires Olafs Berkis, Olegs Stepanovs, Igors Skoks and Genadijs Sevcovs have been elected into the AS Ventspils nafta Supervisory Council. They are all believed to have in mind one and the same thought of selling the Latvian oil business. They intend to do it bypassing the state as the potential owner of the seized Lembergs’ shares.

Besides, the persons have carried out a variety of schemes that have brought the state and the company huge losses. Now there is a possibility that national oil business will simply be sold and the money will travel straight into the pockets of Lembergs and Berkis. But the Prosecutor General’s Office seems not to to be concerned.

The enthusiasm from 2007 about the fight against corruption has practically faded and politicians no longer fear possible punishment that much. Lembergs recently gained access to oil companies’ money in cooperation with Berkis, Skoks, Sevcovs and Stepanovs, who had falsified documents and held a number of fake shareholder meetings. This makes it easier to keep bribing politicians and officials who are never tortured by their conscience.

Lembergs also benefits from Berkis’s public relations campaign, where false facts cast shadows over the legitimate management of AS Ventbunkers.

In most cases, when they talk about the true Ventbunkers’ majority shareholder, they choose to miss out on a crucial detail. Although they do mention the Swiss attorney Rudolf Meroni, they never say a word about the national interest of Latvia as a state.

Looking back at the events leading up to the dispute among Lembergs, Berkis and Meroni, it should be noted that back in the summer of 2005 100% of shareholders appointed the Swiss attorney as the Chairman of AS Ventbunkers Supervisory Council. Already back then, a fight broke out between the shareholders Berkis, Stepanovs, Skoks and Sevcovs, who could not find common ground with Lembergs. As a result, Meroni turned out to be the neutral party – later to be appointed as the custodian of the assets seized within the framework of criminal proceedings.

In 2009 it emerged that not only Lembergs had employed schemes to direct money away from Ventbunkers. Also Berkis and his associates had done the same via the two clients of the company – Gunvor and Litasco.

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Riga, Latvia: On December 28, 2011, an associate of Martins Kveps' law firm once again submitted to the Register of Enterprises brutally falsified documents of a Shareholders' Meeting, which never took place and which had never been convoked. This is the fifth attempt of the notorious Kveps to illegally seize control of the company Ventbunkers, one of the most important enterprises involved in the Oil Transit Business in the Latvian port of Ventspils.

On June 27, 2011, the legitimate Management Board of Ventbunkers convoked a Shareholders' Meeting to take place on December 20, 2011. The legitimate Shareholders of AS Ventbunkers properly carried out this Shareholders’ Meeting. More than 70% of the Shareholders were represented at the Meeting. The results of this legitimate Shareholders' Meeting were submitted to the Register of Enterprises and properly registered on the following day.

But then, three days later, on the 23rd of December 2011, Martins Kveps dared to try to hold another Shareholders' Meeting of Ventbunkers, which had never been convoked by the Management Board and never took place. From the list of participants, it becomes obvious for whom Kveps made this brutal falsification. Kveps represented the company Topmar Baltic Investments, beneficially owned by Oleg Stepanov. Janis Berkis represented the company Kement, owned by his father Olaf Berkis. Additionally two other companies, Steropes Limited and Gyges Limited, participated even though they are not and never were shareholders of A/S Ventbunkers. These two companies belong to Igors Skoks and Gennady Shevcovs respectively. However,  the most intriguing  detail is as follows:  Liga Lemberga,  Anrijs Lembergs and Optima Management also participated in the false meeting. It is well known that these three Shareholders are acting in the interest of Aivars Lembergs. Therefore, it is equally obvious that Lembergs also stands behind this brutal falsification.

The time of false and illegal corporate actions seems not to be over yet in Latvia. With a simple and criminal falsification, such as was made by Kveps and his cohorts, it seems to be possible for anyone to submit documents to the Register of Enterprises, have them registered and give the (wrong) appearance to the public of changes to the legitimate management of a company. Ventbunkers is submitting a criminal complaint to the investigation authorities. It is hoped that the General Prosecutors' Office will intervene and stop such brutal falsifications and criminal acts from reoccurring in the future.

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