Gazprom scare for foreign investors

Foreign investment sentiment was already being battered by the Yukos affair, the Kremlin's attack on what was Russia's biggest oil company. However, waning confidence was dealt a fresh blow in August when a Duma deputy officially called for an investigation into ?grey? schemes used by foreigners to hold billions of dollars-worth of Gazprom shares.

Gazprom pipeline: for years foreign
investors have got around
restrictions on owning shares in the
Russian gas company through grey
trading schemes. News of a
crackdown hit its share price




Foreign investment sentiment was already being battered by the Yukos affair, the Kremlin’s attack on what was Russia’s biggest oil company. However, waning confidence was dealt a fresh blow in August when a Duma deputy officially called for an investigation into ?grey? schemes used by foreigners to hold billions of dollars-worth of Gazprom shares.

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