Jack J. Grynberg Files a Criminal Complaint Against BP Egypt and Total SA at the Cairo Criminal Prosecutor's Office, Under Egypt's Income Tax Evasion Laws

DENVER, December 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Mr. Jack J. Grynberg, President and CEO of RSM Production Corporation (RSM) and President of Pricaspian Development Corporation, filed papers on 11th November 2013 at the Cairo Criminal Prosecutor's Office under Article 47 of Law No. 91 in Egypt asserting tax evasion by BP Egypt and Total SA.

The papers filed relate to Jack J. Grynberg's claims that the governments of Egypt and Kazakhstan missed out on billions of dollars of transaction tax when BP Egypt and Total SA undervalued and swapped assets in 2001. Early in December 2013 Mr. Grynberg's complaint was received by the Egyptian Tax Evasion Department under the heading number 1795 27/11.

Notes to editors

• Jack J. Grynberg is a leading figure in the domestic U.S. and international petroleum industry.
• He is an American veteran of the U.S. Army Research and Development Command.  He was born in 1932 in Brest, Poland (now Belarus).
• He has a Master's Degree in Petroleum Production Engineering and a Masters' Degree in Petroleum Refining and Chemical Engineering, and completed the coursework for a Doctorate in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, where he also served 6 years as a trustee (governor).
• Grynberg discovered the Greater Kashagan Oil Fields located in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the early nineties. He was one of the first western oilmen to develop relations with Kazakh President Nursultan Abishevich Nazarbayev before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This relationship and others provided him with access to complex, unique and confidential Soviet seismic and economic data.

For further information please see http://www.jackgrynberg.blogspot.com

Jack J. Grynberg, President and CEO
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