In 2013 Carter Page meets with people surveilled by the FBI for being undisclosed Russian operatives. In conversations mentions he is "interested in earning large sums of money" and "apparently interested in striking a deal with Gazprom."
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"SECHIN's associate said that the Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered PAGE/TRUMP's associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privitised) stake in Rosneft in return