In testimony before the House intelligence committee, Page denied discussing “specifics” about sanctions with the Rosneft official. But the resulting story said the “full identity of the new owners of the Rosneft stake” remained “a mystery”, as did “the complete source of the funds with which they bought it”. Reuters assigned no fewer than 11 reporters to try to find out who actually purchased the shares in the company and where the financing came from. And Carter Page flew to Moscow the day after the deal was announced, for reasons that remain shrouded in mystery. ![]() The dossier was also off by half a percentage point about the size of the privatization.īut just five months after Page’s Moscow meeting, Rosneft did in fact announce the privatization of 19.5% of the giant company, the largest privatization in Russian history. PAGE had expressed interest and confirmed that were TRUMP elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted.”Īs the Mueller report pointed out, the dossier was wrong about the identity of the Rosneft official Page met: it was actually one of Sechin’s deputies, Andrey Baranov. The dossier reported that Sechin “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% (privatised) stake in Rosneft in return. ![]() But there was something else several reporters thought was much more intriguing: a description of a meeting between Carter Page, a Trump aide, and Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin collaborator and head of the Russian energy giant Rosneft.
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