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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday on "To Catch a Yacht": Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft, Putin bestie. (France)
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Olivier Knox
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French finance ministry announces it has seized the yacht of Igor Sechin, CEO of the Russian oil behemoth Rosneft and an oligarch thought to be very close to Putin. Statement says it was making emergency plans to leave before scheduled repairs were done.
https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/03-03-2022-saisie-du-yacht-amore-vero/
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5:49 AM · Mar 3, 2022
Olivier Knox
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French finance ministry announces it has seized the yacht of Igor Sechin, CEO of the Russian oil behemoth Rosneft and an oligarch thought to be very close to Putin. Statement says it was making emergency plans to leave before scheduled repairs were done.
https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/03-03-2022-saisie-du-yacht-amore-vero/
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Today on "To Catch a Yacht": Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft, Putin bestie. (France) (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. The Republicans' billionaire badboy komrades in Russia
are having a well-deserved sad.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏
France!
Jilly_in_VA
(9,941 posts)3. Tee hee!
We salute you, our French comrades!
panader0
(25,816 posts)4. Remember Rex Tillerson, trump's first Secretary of State? CEO of Exxon, made deals with
Rosneft, got the highest civilian award from Putin. Carter Page was in on the commission deal.
Just more proof, from early in tfg's administration, that trump was in cahoots with Putin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/us/politics/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-trump.html
Nevilledog
(51,020 posts)5. Wait......are you telling me a Trump associate was crooked?