Spox: Putin holds closed meeting with Rosneft CEO Sechin

MOSCOW, Apr 20 (PRIME) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a closed meeting with oil major Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin late on Wednesday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

“This meeting actually happened, it was held rather late yesterday, but it was a closed meeting,” he said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Sechin met with head of the republic of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, and Kadyrov told Putin that the republic and the oil major had settled all disputes.

Kommersant business daily reported in February that Rosneft wants to sell 51% in Grozneftegaz and other assets in the republic of Chechnya to the republic for 12.5 billion rubles. Kadyrov said the price is too high and promised to seek a fair deal.

The Financial Times said that an investigation into involvement of some Chechen organizations in a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg metro on April 3 was connected with the conflict between the republic and the oil company. Sechin and Kadyrov called the article a “deliberate lie” and said they did not ruled out turning to court.

(56.1753 rubles – U.S. $1)

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