NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Russia should not pay for mistakes by oil pipeline monopoly Transneft from the budget, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on Wednesday.
Five million tonnes of oil were contaminated last month with organic chloride and some of the dirty crude is still stuck in pipelines in Belarus and eastern Europe.
"In my opinion it would be wrong, it would be compensation from the budget for the company which did not meet its contract obligations..." Siluanov said on the sidelines of a conference in Kazakhstan.