哈薩克國有石油公司起訴羅馬尼亞政府
Kazakhstan’s state oil company has initiated legal proceedings against Romania aFTer prosecutors froze its shares in the country’s largest oil refinery, disrupting plans to sell a controlling stake to a Chinese company.
哈薩克斯坦國家石油和天然氣公司(KazMunaiGas)對羅馬尼亞啓動法律程序，此前檢察官凍結了該公司在羅馬尼亞最大煉油廠的股權，破壞了將控股權出售給一家中國公司的計劃。
KazMunaiGas submitted a “notice of investment dispute” — the first step in a legal process that could lead to international arbitration — to the Romanian government, according to a letter from the company’s lawyers seen by the FT.
根據哈薩克斯坦國家石油和天然氣公司律師的一封信，該公司向羅馬尼亞政府遞交了一份“投資爭端通知”，這是可能導致國際仲裁的司法程序的第一步。英國《金融時報》看到了這封信。
The dispute is the latest obstacle for Kazakhstan’s ambitious privatisation programme, which was announced last year with much fanfare but has made little progress.
這一爭端是哈薩克斯坦雄心勃勃的私有化計劃的最新障礙，去年，哈薩克斯坦大張旗鼓地宣佈了私有化計劃，但進展甚微。
KazMunaiGas in late April agreed to sell a 51 per cent stake in KazMunaiGas International, the subsidiary that owns the Petromidia refinery in Romania, to CEFC, a private Chinese company, for $680m.
今年4月下旬，哈薩克斯坦國家石油和天然氣公司同意以6.80億美元將其子公司KazMunaiGas International的51%股權出售給中國私營企業華信能源(CEFC)。KazMunaiGas International是羅馬尼亞Petromidia煉油廠的所有者。
But only days later, Romania’s Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), a unit of the public prosecutor’s office, named KazMunaiGas as a party in a corruption probe into the privatisation of the refinery in the early 2000s and froze its assets.
但僅僅幾天後，羅馬尼亞政府檢察官辦公室下屬的有組織犯罪和恐怖主義調查司(Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism)就將哈薩克斯坦國家石油和天然氣公司列爲一樁針對2000年代初該煉油廠私有化的腐敗調查的當事人，並凍結了其資產。
“Romania is using its governmental power to undermine that transaction and renationalise the assets,” KazMunaiGas lawyers said in the letter to the Romanian government.
哈薩克斯坦國家石油和天然氣公司律師在寫給羅馬尼亞政府的這封信中表示：“羅馬尼亞正利用政府權力破壞這筆交易，並將相關資產再度國有化。”
