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...The ties between the Franco-Israeli billionaire and GOI Energy, which bought the Sicilian refinery from Lukoil this year with support from the commodity trader Trafigura, raise questions over the sale and...
...Lukoil on Tuesday reported net income for the April-June quarter of Rbs138.6bn ($2.4bn), an annual increase of 121 per cent, helped by a $1.45bn windfall from the sale of its stake in a diamond mine....
...Last December, Otkritie bought a diamond mine from Lukoil, its second-largest shareholder, for $1.4bn....
...The targets include five Russian energy companies – Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Lukoil, Surgutneftegas and Rosneft....
...Lukoil appears to have negotiated a reprieve. “Gazprom will continue to purchase gas at previous levels,” a Lukoil spokesman told beyondbrics on Tuesday....
...Even John Le Carre’s latest, Our Kind of Traitor, features a Russian millionaire called Dima with a diamond-encrusted watch. But reality is so much more entertaining than fiction....
...Alongside the state companies in St Petersburg last week were leaders of private companies including Lukoil, the energy group, and Rusal, the aluminium giant....
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