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Financial Times @FT has just published an article with scandalous disinformation about Russia's Gazprom, claiming that it "grapples with global gas glut and geopolitics", not mentioning that it is the most embezzled company in the world.
ft.com/content/7eec5c…
@FT In 2008, the brave opposition analysts Boris Nemtsov (murdered at the Kremlin) & Vladimir Milov published a booklet showing with good evidence that Putin's friends stole $15 billion a year from Gazprom. How can London Stock Exchange allow such a company?
putin-itogi.ru/putin-i-gazpro…
@FT Gazprom's market capitalization collapsed appropriately from a peak of $369bn in May 2008 to currently $86bn. bloomberg.com/quote/OGZD:LI
@FT Any serious publication or analyst need to point out the extraordinary embezzlement characteristic of Gazprom, which explains its righty miserable p/e of 3.5.
Investors buy Gazprom shares as bonds, i.e. only for the yield, of 6.95%.
bloomberg.com/quote/OGZD:LI
@FT So why doesn't anybody say that in this article? Presumably, they are all dependent in one way or the other, as consultants or investment bankers, on the giant Gazprom. If the EU was serious about money laundering & KYC, Gazprom would be prohibited in EU banks.
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