Rocky_Shorz
18th December 2010, 19:53
I'm glad Putin is all for getting leaks out...
Whistle-Blowing Blogger Fights The Power
He's been called Russia's one-man WIkiLeaks and he appears to be getting under the skin of the country's power elite.
On December 15, on the eve of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's annual televised call-in program with the public, blogger and shareholders' rights activist Aleksei Navalny called on his readers to badger the prime minister with questions about alleged embezzlement at the state-controlled oil pipeline company Transneft. His goal, he wrote, was "to make the crooks nervous."
Navalny alleged on his blog last month that executives at Transneft embezzled approximately $4 billion in public funds in transactions connected to the construction of the East Siberian Pacific Ocean pipeline.
Navalny made his allegation based on what he describes as internal Transneft documents showing that the company's executives used contracts with bogus subcontractor companies to siphon cash into offshore bank accounts. (You can view the documents in Russian on Navalny's website.)
Navalny also posted a pretty slick video on YouTube spelling out the allegations:
http://www.rferl.org/content/whistle_blowing_blogger_fights_the_power/2250696.html
Whistle-Blowing Blogger Fights The Power
He's been called Russia's one-man WIkiLeaks and he appears to be getting under the skin of the country's power elite.
On December 15, on the eve of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's annual televised call-in program with the public, blogger and shareholders' rights activist Aleksei Navalny called on his readers to badger the prime minister with questions about alleged embezzlement at the state-controlled oil pipeline company Transneft. His goal, he wrote, was "to make the crooks nervous."
Navalny alleged on his blog last month that executives at Transneft embezzled approximately $4 billion in public funds in transactions connected to the construction of the East Siberian Pacific Ocean pipeline.
Navalny made his allegation based on what he describes as internal Transneft documents showing that the company's executives used contracts with bogus subcontractor companies to siphon cash into offshore bank accounts. (You can view the documents in Russian on Navalny's website.)
Navalny also posted a pretty slick video on YouTube spelling out the allegations:
http://www.rferl.org/content/whistle_blowing_blogger_fights_the_power/2250696.html