News articles on this issue can be found e.g. in Baltic News Network. Read there in English or LatvianAbstract of the article published in BNN on August 3rd, 2012 with reference to Aivars Gobins:

Dzintars Kass disgraces himself over trumped-up charges

August 3, 2012

The Ventspils prosecutor Nadezda Jakusonoka on July 24, 2012 dismissed alleged charges of intentionally concealing information from the tax authorities (Art. 217, Subsection 2 of the Criminal Code) against the legitimate Ventbunkers management board members Alvis Haze, Janis Haze and Mihhail Dementjevs. Thereby she rejected false accusations and established that their activities had no nature of offence in accordance with this clause.

An investigation against the legitimate Ventbunkers Management was initiated in March 2012 by the false «Berkis Management» of Ventbunkers with the Latvian Finance Police on the basis of misrepresented facts submitted by the false Ventbunkers Chairman, Dzintars Kass. It is loudly rumoured that a big brown envelope was involved and methods of doubtful legality were applied to «convince» the Finance Police to start an investigation. In late December 2011, Berkis and his puppets had reached a false registration in the Commercial Register by criminal methods based on falsified documents prepared by the master of falsified shareholders meetings, Martins Kveps.

The Ventspils Prosecutor Jakusonoka’s decision proves that Kass and his sponsor, the controversial and to the ruling party’s Unity «black funds» related Ventspils’ millionaire Olafs Berkis, had spread false information about the legitimate Ventbunkers Management. False documents were used by Berkis and his accomplices to obtain a false registration of management positions in Ventbunkers to which they were never elected in a legal way.

Read on in Baltic News Network englisch Version

Rudolf Meroni: Litasco is running out of time. Ventbunkers will store fuel oil offshore.

Litasco (a subsidiary of LUKOIL) is illegally blocking A/s Ventbunkers’ (VBU) terminal facilities in an attempt to illegally force VBU to sign a fuel oil transshipment agreement for 2011.

At the same time Litasco blocks the export of fuel oil by rail through Latvia causing millions of damages to the Latvian economy. According to Aivars Gobins, Ventbunkers Media Director, Litasco has only a few days left to lift their fuel oil from VBU terminal before the first vessel, chartered by VBU, arrives in Ventspils port later this week to store the fuel oil offshore on account of Litsaco. However, the Latvian customs authorities still have to approve this measure.

Read the full Press release as PDF file: Rudolf Meroni: Litasco is running out of time.