12-09-01 According to the general manager of "Grozneftegaz" Bautdin Haminov there are hundreds if not thousands of illegal mini-refineries in Chechnya.
Every second Chechen family lives on the funds raised from sake of low-quality condensed gasoline. Only in the last 6 years in Chechnya not less than 6 mm tons of oil and 2 bn cm of natural gas was stolen or burnt.