"We are able to charge for the increased risk. VTB Capital is an emerging market bank and we are prepared to do business other banks…
Prior to shifting its focus to India’s Essar Group, VTB Capital was active in Mozambique, secretly arranging (together with Credit Suisse) loans for state-owned firms…
On 1 June 2017, Alexey Miller, chairman of Gazprom, held a meeting with a Greek high official in Sankt Petersburg on securing transit of Russian…
VTB Capital, one of the bidders for India’s Essar Steel, has been involved in serious cases of corruption. After Victor Yanukovych was ousted in 2014,…
Syriza established a system of patronage and nepotism. Alexis Tsipras appointed his cousin, friend and former business partner, Giorgos Tsipras, a mechanical engineer with no…
VTB, one of the bidders for India’s Essar Steel, has faced charges in the US. In 2016, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fined…
The similarities between VTB’s partnership with India’s Essar and the Hoima project in Uganda are striking. In 2016, a Russian consortium walked out from the…
Sanctions turned Russia’s VTB Group into a pariah in Western countries. VTB shifted its focus to Asia to offset US and EU sanctions. Amid sanctions,…
(The Ruia family controls the vast Essar corporation: from left, Anshuman Ruia, Ravi Ruia, Shashi Ruia and Prashant Ruia) The Ruias have very strong ties…
Italy’s Snam, Belgium’s Fluxys and Spain’s Engas were declared the preferred bidder in the acquisition of DESFA, Greece’s gas operator. (See here for more details:…