BP brings Russian executive home

Barcelona News.Net
Thursday 24th July, 2008

UK oil company, BP, has withdrawn its chief executive from Russia after he suffered harassment by the company's Russian shareholders.

BP chief executive Tony Hayward said in a statement, that TNK-BP chief executive Robert Dudley had been subjected to sustained attacks and had decided to leave Russia.

Mr Hayward said the harassment had been orchestrated by the Alfa, Access and Renova shareholders.

Dudley's departure is the latest twist in a bitter dispute between TNK-BP's shareholders and a consortium of Russian industrialists known as AAR, who have sought to oust Dudley.

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