Report: CEO says Transneft to ask govt to include divs in tariffs

MOSCOW, Dec 14 (PRIME) -- Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft plans to ask the government to include dividends in its tariffs, CEO Nikolai Tokarev told channel Rossiya 24 in an interview broadcast Friday.

“We will surely raise the question, we are raising it systemically with all government bodies, including the need to envisage a component in the tariffs that can be converted into dividends,” he said.

“Because we can take endless loans without it but it will reduce spending on the investment program, this is unacceptable as well.”

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