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fleur-de-lisa

(14,627 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:33 AM Apr 2018

BP chief executive Bob Dudley 'poisoned in Russian plot'

30 April 2018 — 6:55am

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/bp-chief-executive-bob-dudley-poisoned-in-russian-plot-20180430-p4zccy.html

London: The chief executive of BP was poisoned in a plot believed to have been orchestrated by the Russian security services, a former employee has disclosed.

Bob Dudley, the US head of the British oil giant, had to flee Moscow after blood test results indicated he was being poisoned slowly, the former employee claimed.

Rumours that Dudley was poisoned began to circulate in 2014, six years after he left Russia in August 2008. At the time, Dudley was a senior executive in BP, running a highly profitable joint venture called TNK-BP.

Ilya Zaslavskiy, who worked for TNK-BP for 4½ years, has claimed that the Russian authorities wanted to oust Dudley, so put in place a plan to poison him slowly.

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BP chief executive Bob Dudley 'poisoned in Russian plot' (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 OP
Wow Me. Apr 2018 #1
Didn't he poison the Gulf of Mexico malaise Apr 2018 #2
I get it. I live in New Orleans, so I hate BP too. fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 #4
I remember when he headed off to Lords for the opening match of the cricket season malaise Apr 2018 #5
Makes me wonder... FM123 Apr 2018 #3

Me.

(35,454 posts)
1. Wow
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:37 AM
Apr 2018

seriously...this is beyond...something truly needs to be done about Putin and we'll need a new president to do it.

malaise

(269,063 posts)
2. Didn't he poison the Gulf of Mexico
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:39 AM
Apr 2018

and kill people in that disaster?

I honestly don't give a flying fugg.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,627 posts)
4. I get it. I live in New Orleans, so I hate BP too.
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:43 AM
Apr 2018

But I find it appalling the lengths to which the Russian oligarchy will go to get what they want. They are so brazen they don't really even care if they get caught.

malaise

(269,063 posts)
5. I remember when he headed off to Lords for the opening match of the cricket season
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:51 AM
Apr 2018

in the middle of that mess in the Gulf of Mexico.

The thing is they're all criminals and none of them cares who gets killed or hurt.
I feel the same way about all of them. Sorry. my sympathy is for us peons.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
3. Makes me wonder...
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 10:41 AM
Apr 2018

Trumpy claims that he has to eat KFC & McDonalds fast food all the time because he is afraid of folks trying to "poison" him. I think that the poisoning he is really afraid of is by Putin, for not dealing with the sanctions the way his svengali wants him to.

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