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…
[The graphic above is from the Dutch broadcaster, Zembla, that shows Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive Kazakh banker, former Almaty Mayor Viktor Khrapunov, and their children,…
In August 2017, Fluxys CEO Pascal De Buck told Belgian media that the participation of Fluxys, Snam and Enagas in TAP pipeline project might give…
In 2008, Oleg Deripaska was Russia’s richest man, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at around 28 billion dollars. The financial crisis almost took him…