Besides Russia, are there any other countries collecting Transneft fees on oil's deal?
There are some companies they collecting upfront Transneft fees like OAO Surgutoil Co. (Sergei Adamov), OFECO Oil Company (Fedulova) & ORISON OIL COMPANY - SIBNEFTPROM (Dubrin BB), SOGAZ Oil. They have asked for diff amount for Transneft fees, all to their account, can not pay direct to Transneft HQ, from 30,000 to 178,000 USD.
Do not pay any upfront Transneft fee to Russian Sellers under no circumstances.
There is a well organized Russian crime network made of many so-called Russian independent sellers or seller's mandates,all of them advertising on Alibaba.com but their leader is posing as the Presient of Transneft, the Russian State Pipeline monopoly, issuing fake Transneft documents including Invoice with Transneft bank accounts (which really belong to the scammers), Affidavit and contracts. He uses the following email addresses: simonbainshtock@mail.ru and bainshtocksm@mail.ru. All deceptive email addresses from a Russian free mail server using the name of a legitimate Russian official to fool foreigners who think that they are dealing with the head of Transneft. We learned that he also uses the alias: Sergey Dmitriev.
Buyers from many countries have been victimized by these scammers and they are still in business.
These people are not selling oil. Their business is to scam foreign oil buyers for upfront Transneft fees.
The rule of thumb with Transneft fee is that it should pay with the LC upon delivery. Once you show BCL, soft probe to the seller, he should pay the Transneft fee to Transneft to get you POP and PB after POF is issued by you.
Any respectable seller who has closed deals before should not have any problem paying $30,000 for the so-called transneft fee. The big oil sellers (GAZPROM, ROSNEFT,...) do not even mention these so called fees.
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