RusEnergy

27.01.2006 IntelliNews Today - According to oil major TNK-BP's press service, the company paid USD 245mn out of USD 1bn of back tax claims for 2001. The company's CEO Dmitriy Zavgorodniy believes that after this payout, TNK-BP sees the problem of tax claims as solved and closed issue. He added though, that not all lawsuits between the company and tax authorities were closed. TNK-BP does not exclude winning some of them and claiming some funds back.