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Nussir and Putin’s Circle

A businessman who signed an oil deal with Vladimir Putin’s close adviser controls one of the two largest shareholders in the company buying Norway’s Nussir copper mine.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 11
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In December 2012, Turkish businessman Ahmet Çalık and Rosneft chief Igor Sechin signed an agreement to set up an oil marketing and distribution venture. The deal was signed at an Istanbul summit led by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Türkiye’s then-prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to contemporary report…

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