Tag: Italy
Telecom Italia is selling its landline network to American Private Equity Giant KKR
Telecom Italia SpA has agreed to sell its land-line network to KKR & Co. in a government-backed deal valued at around €22 billion ($23.6 billion), according to people familiar with the matter. The phone carrier’s board of directors, after a marathon meeting that started on Friday, approved the grid sale to the US private equity giant on Sunday without making it conditional on…
“Cash is King” to Avoiding US Sanctions
Miami – It was a deal that brought together oligarchs from some of America’s top adversaries. ‘The key is the cash,’ the oil broker wrote in a text message, offering a deep discount on Venezuelan crude shipments to an associate who claimed to be fronting for the owner of Russia’s biggest aluminum company. ‘As soon as you are ready with…
Leaked: Unintentional whistleblower Berlusconi tells “true story” of the Russia/Ukraine “massacre”
Ukraine throws damns this treaty to hell [less dramatic translation: violates the treaty] a year later, and begins attacking the borders of the two republics…Desperate, the two republics send a delegation to Moscow and finally manage to talk to Putin.