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Note 13 - Related Party Transactions
During the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, the Company identified a potential liability of approximately $2.0 million related to the Company's non-payment of required US Federal tax withholdings in the course of its initial acquisition of a part of NP. In October 2009, Magellan acquired 83.5% of the membership interests in NP (the "Poplar Acquisition") from the two majority owners of NP, White Bear LLC ("White Bear"), and YEP I, SICAV-FES ("YEP I"). Both of these entities are affiliated with Nikolay V. Bogachev, a foreign national who was a director of Magellan at the time of the Poplar Acquisition but has since resigned. Because YEP I was a foreign entity and the members of White Bear were foreign nationals, Magellan was required to make US Federal tax withholdings from the payments to or for the benefit of White Bear and YEP I. Of the $2.0 million liability, $1.3 million was estimated to relate to the interest sold by White Bear, $0.6 million to the interest sold by YEP I, and $0.1 million to Magellan's interest on the late payment of the US Federal tax withholdings.
With regards to White Bear, Mr. Bogachev filed his US income tax return and paid taxes due on the Poplar Acquisition, and Magellan has no further related potential liability. With regards to YEP I, which is now a defunct entity, Magellan concluded that it was unlikely that one of YEP I's successor entities would be filing the corresponding US income tax return. As a result, the Company initiated a disclosure process with the IRS. During October 2013, the Company received a letter from the IRS stating that the disclosure process has been completed. This transaction had no effect on the Company for the six months ended December 31, 2013.
J. Robinson West, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, also serves as a non-employee director on the board of directors for Key Energy Services Inc. ("KES"). KES performed contract drilling rig services for the Company in Poplar during the second quarter of fiscal year 2014. The total contract fees paid to KES during the six months ended December 31, 2013, was $2.2 million. As of December 31, 2013, there were no unpaid contract fees related to KES.
See Note 8 - Stockholders' Equity above for discussions of other transactions in which Mr. Bogachev had an interest and which was finalized as of January 2013.
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