Rosneft announces performance of instructions from President and Government of the Russian Federation on Company officials' and their family members' filing income statements
Rosneft hereby announces performance of the instructions from the President and Government of the Russian Federation on Company officials’ and family members’ filing information about their income, property, and liabilities.
The following top managers have filed their statements to authorized agencies:
Igor Sechin – President, Chairman of the Management Board
Eric Maurice Liron – First Vice President
Andrey Votinov – Vice President for Capital Construction
Marina Guryeva – Chief Accountant
Larisa Kalanda – State Secretary – Vice President
Yury Kalinin – Vice President for HR and Social Policy
Didier Casimiro – Vice President for Commerce and Logistics
Andrey Lazeev – Vice President – Chief Geologist
Igor Maydannik – Vice President for Legal Support
Vladimir Milovidov – Vice President for Innovation
Igor Pavlov – Vice President for Refining and Petrochemical
Vlada Rusakova – Vice President
Zeljko Runje – Vice President for Offshore Projects
Svyatoslav Slavinsky – Vice President for Economics and Finance
Rashid Sharipov – Vice President, Head of Rosneft President Office.
Andrey Shishkin – Vice President for Power and HSE
The Company also announces that in line the UN Convention Against Corruption dated October 31, 2003 that the Russian Federation ratified in 2006 and with the Federal Law on Countering Corruption adopted in furtherance of the above Convention, Rosneft, an international public company, has put in place internal regulations for improving transparency and countering corruption, including the Policy on Combating Involvement in Corruption Activities and the Policy on Combating Corporate Fraud (both available at the Company’s website). The said corporate regulations define a list of officials who must file information about their and their spouses’ and minor children’s income, property, and liabilities. The list includes the President, Vice Presidents, Chief Accountant, heads of departments and their deputies, heads of divisions and their deputies, directors of Subsidiaries and their deputies.
To avoid conflict of interests, supplements to employment contracts have been signed with the said Company officials that stipulate their obligation to provide the indicated information about themselves and their family members, control mechanisms to ensure the obligations, requirements, prohibitions, and limitations are respected, conflict of interests resolution mechanisms, implications of failing to respect the obligations, requirements, prohibitions, and limitations. The supplements signed with the officials listed above limit the amount of shares they can hold in public companies either competing or not competing with the Company to 1%. Information about the Company top managers’ shareholding is public and is available at the Company’s website.
In addition, the Company has a number of other internal regulations to mitigate legal and reputation risks. In particular, the Company has a Code of Business Ethics which is binding for all Company managers and employees. The Company operates an electronic Code violation notification system.
Rosneft Board of Directors that includes Robert Dudley, Matthias Warnig, John Mack and Donald Humphreys undertakes regular assessments of corruption risks present in the industries and jurisdictions where the Company operates and reviews all identified instances of conflict of interests and takes necessary response actions, up to employment termination. Since the said procedures were enacted, employment of a number of workers has been terminated who committed gross violations of the Company’s standards. Relevant materials have been submitted to Russian law enforcement agencies.
Rosneft Information Division
May 13, 2014