story is doubtful. Probably just part of the marginalize, delegitimize, ostercize, criminalize steps. No doubt he has money, but who really needs to steal 60B dollars?
you feel sorry for this murdeius thug who was KGB agent in East Germany .?Marginalize a monster like Putin !
this guy is a evil sob who oversaw East German Stasi programs that killed and tortured thousands!
Who are you trying to fool here ?
He did not steal it per se. But when they were nationalizing he gas concerns, the oligarchy cut him off a piece here and there. As those pieces grew he was able to buy or have himself granted larger and larger pieces of the pie.
And when you look at his movements in Ukraine, most of the strategy has to do with controlling gas lines from the Middle East to Europe.
Imagine Obama owning a 20% of the holding company that owned the keystone pipeline. Imagine what that would do to the process.
Word on the street is that Carter and his crew wanted to set up a similar deal in ‘79 and the Shah told him to go back and suck peanuts. Look how that worked out.
When a reason given is “nationalistic and patriotic” it’s crap.