Why has Abramovich’s billionaire friend been left off the UK sanctions list?
by Jon Ungoed-Thomas from World news | The Guardian on (#5X1PE)
Eugene Shvidler has stepped down as a director of Ervaz, the steel company accused of possibly supplying steel for tanks
In March 2000, five of Russia's richest oligarchs met in a suite at the Dorchester Hotel in London to discuss a multibillion-pound merger involving some of the biggest assets in the world aluminium industry.
The tycoons - one of whom arrived from a legal hearing in the House of Lords - discussed Russian politics, the aluminium wars in their country in the 1990s and the creation of the industrial giant Rusal.
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