Sentences with phrase «connected oligarchs»

Since the 1950s, a series of dictators had devastated the Argentine private sector, concentrating wealth into the hands of politically connected oligarchs, corrupt government contractors, and, most recently, foreign investors.

Also, Cohen legally represented something called the Ukrainian Capital Growth Fund, he and two Ukrainian partners made failed investments in a gambling cruise business, and he tried to pitch US investors to fund a Ukrainian ethanol company controlled by an allegedly mob - connected oligarch.

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Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, a mathematical genius, were behind the creation of VK, «Russia's Facebook», worth an estimated $ 3 billion, but were effectively forced to sell their stake in the company by oligarch shareholders deeply connected to the Putin - led government.

Weaver's seemingly disparate missions connect him to Islamic leaders in the Sudan, a French foreign minister, a Russian oligarch.

Last night, word came out that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, had received $ 500,000 in payments from a U.S. investment firm connected to a Russian oligarch named Viktor Vekselberg.

Durov and his brother Nikolai Durov, a mathematical genius, were behind the creation of VK, «Russia's Facebook», worth an estimated $ 3 billion, but were effectively forced to sell their stake in the company by oligarch shareholders deeply connected to the Putin - led government.