April 2, 2008 By James Kimer

TNK-BP Office Raid Sought Gazprom Documents

Here’s a HUGE scoop from Reuters, who has found out from inside sources that the recent police raid on BP’s affiliate offices in Russia was only interested in seizing documents related to Gazprom, further indicating that this mess has Igor Sechin’s fingerprints all over it.

Agents “hunted Gazprom documents” in BP Russian raids By Conor Sweeney and Dmitry Zhdannikov MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security officers who raided BP’s Russian venture’s headquarters last month were looking for files relating to state gas monopoly Gazprom, industry sources told Reuters. “They were scanning through pages of documents, looking for the word ‘Gazprom’,” said one source familiar with details of the investigation. “The only thing that seemed to interest the officers, based on their questions, was information on Gazprom,” a second source said, commenting on March raids by 78 officers at TNK-BP’s central Moscow offices.