Putin asked metallurgists not to be offended for “fattening”

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the metallurgists not to be offended by the words about “fattening” of the state. He said this at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF), broadcast is conducted in Youtube.

The fact is that the market situation has changed and this industry began to receive extensions, this is an obvious thing, “the president stated. According to him, such situations lead to skews in the economy.

At the end of May, the first deputy chairman of the government, Andrei Belousov, said that the metallurgical companies were “fallen” the state about 100 billion rubles of unpaid taxes from the profits obtained at the expense of a successful market situation during a coronavirus pandemic.

In the Kremlin, they answered this that in the situation with super-profits of Russian metallurgists, it makes no sense to seem guilty, because it is “economic life.”

/Media reports.