Wikileaks about Gazprom: company inefficient and corrupt

Exemplary concern "Gazprom" in fact turned out to be inefficient and corrupt company, whose activities are subject to a political system in Russia this opinion U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Records of the embassy issued a site WikiLeaks and share them with the German weekly Der Spiegel. In the reports of diplomats in 2009 stated that the situation in the Group consists not in the best manner. Production and sales decline, decline in income leads to abandon investment. Problems are long-term, as gas demand falls, including in Europe, where additional measures are taken to improve production efficiency. Virtually no possibility of finding new markets and in the former Soviet Union. For example, Ukraine is almost halve gas purchases. But the U.S. market, which had great hopes Miller, more domestic demand by increasing production of its own gas. As reported by Deutsche Welle, the biggest issue of concern, U.S. diplomats have called his own over-inflated structure. Gazprom may not be competitive now, despite the fact that Russia has the world's largest reserves of natural gas "- the report says. Conclusions of Americans rather disappointing: "Gazprom" has to act in the interests of their political masters - even when it contradicts the economic interests. In particular, the concern is forced to transfer money to the "many private accounts and to fund" dirty deal ". However, concrete evidence of these allegations in the dispatches of U.S. diplomats is not given, said Der Spiegel. Sam Gazprom is constantly denied accusations of involvement in corruption. Gazprom will remain the largest firm, but its economic influence will decline, the authors summarize the memos.