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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: JohnM who wrote (247958)3/24/2014 10:38:41 AM
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Billionaire Sought by U.S. Holds Key to Putin Gas Cash
By Irina Reznik and Henry Meyer Mar 24, 2014 8:00 AM ET

A detained billionaire who made a fortune as a middleman in Russia’s murky gas trade with Ukraine may hold the key for U.S. lawmakers seeking harsher sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

Ukrainian Dmitry Firtash, arrested in Vienna this month on an American warrant for bribery and other charges, may hand over a treasure trove of information about deals involving Russian state gas exporter OAO Gazprom that the U.S. would consider corrupt, said Mikhail Korchemkin, a former analyst for the Soviet Union’s Gas Ministry in Moscow and founder of Malvern, Pennsylvania-based East European Gas Analysis.

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