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A “mini-mystery” breaks out on the London Stock Exchange: around 20 million dollars in dividends have disappeared
by Simone Filippetti
The key points
- Payment blocked
- Abramovich’s role
- The risk of automatic default
A “mini-mystery” breaks out on the London Stock Exchange: around 20 million dollars in dividends have disappeared. Evraz, the Russian steel giant, should have paid them, but they are nowhere to be found.
Thus another piece of Londongrad fell, the Russian colonization of London. Behind it hovers the specter of Roman Abramovich, the most famous and richest of the Russian oligarchs. The Russian steel mill, listed on the London Stock Exchange in the years when the British capital was the natural landing place for capital …