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...Additional reporting by James Politi in Washington...
...Aven, on the other hand, houses his £300mn modern art collection in his Surrey mansion and St James pied-à-terre....
...Aven was a member of the Tate donor programmes known as the International Council and European Collection Circle. “Mr Aven’s support of Tate has now ended,” the gallery group said....
...The same applies to Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, two of the other original Russian oligarchs who have maintained close ties with the west over the years....
...The Tate has cut ties with Viktor Vekselberg, founder of a Russian energy conglomerate, and Petr Aven, a Russian banker and art collector, after the businessmen were hit with sanctions by the US and EU respectively...
...James Roundell, previously a director at Dickinson, has joined Ward’s new business as a consultant....
...Former academic, politician and businessman Petr Aven says he no longer knows whether he can pay even the most basic of bills after his business was destroyed by UK action over his alleged links to the Kremlin...
...Two other Blackstone executives earned nine-figure paydays: the firm’s billionaire president Jonathan Gray and recently-retired vice-chair Hamilton James. Both received hauls of at least $160mn....
...At the end, they slip in an interview with the 85-year-old James Baker, US secretary of state from 1989 to 1992....
...Aven was also one of Putin’s old acquaintances, a link that was to prove critical to Alfa Group later on....
...By 1890 Bevan had moved to the artists’ colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany, where Gauguin held court....
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