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INSIGHT - RUSSIA - Bashneft Security Chief gunned down

Released on 2012-05-10 01:00 GMT

Email-ID 5436672
Date 2009-12-30 15:52:39
From goodrich@stratfor.com
To burton@stratfor.com, secure@stratfor.com
CODE: RU101
PUBLICATION: yes if we get more info
ATTRIBUTION: Stratfor sources in the PG office
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: Prosecutor General
SOURCE RELIABILITY: A
ITEM CREDIBILITY: 1
HANDLER: Lauren


The head of security for Russian oil firm Bashneft, Vladimir Butorin, was
gunned down in Ufa at 9 a.m. Dec. 29. Butorin was shot five times - mostly
in the back and buttocks-on his way to work on Mustafa Karim street.

At the crime scene found a barrel of a gun PSS (special self-loading
pistol). This is a rare weapon, armed by the KGB and military
intelligence.

There were surveillance cameras in the area, though they did not record
the incident. There is footage of a woman (or man dressed as a woman)
running from where the incident most likely took place.

Bashneft is offering a reward of 600,000 rubles for any information on the
killing.

Butorin was former KGB, but had been working for Bashneft in charge of
their secrets and securing their intelligence for over a decade.

This is the first assumed contract killing in the energy industry in a few
years. Could be the Kremlin making a move, could be a rival energy company
making a move or could be related to something else altogether (an affair
or bad business).
--
Lauren Goodrich
Director of Analysis
Senior Eurasia Analyst
STRATFOR
T: 512.744.4311
F: 512.744.4334
lauren.goodrich@stratfor.com
www.stratfor.com