Navalny’s Exposé Forced Transneft to Impose a Regime of Extreme Secrecy* The leak of documents containing the results of an audit of the ESPO pipeline construction project, which became one of the biggest stories of late last year, triggered a witch hunt inside Transneft and was followed by tighter operating rules across the company. As Marker learned, a few days after the compromising materials were published online, Transneft president Nikolai Tokarev initiated an internal review of how the company protects commercial secrets; that review uncovered violations. To prevent another leak, orders were issued to introduce an unprecedented level of secrecy throughout the entire holding company. .... According to a Transneft lawyer, confidentiality markings have already been placed on all files related to inspections carried out in recent years, and the dates when those markings were applied were not officially recorded. * www.marker.ru/news/4306 A classic: instead of fighting theft, they fight leaks of information about the theft.
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