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How the City of London keeps Putin’s oil flowing

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At the recent round of Christmas parties in the City of London one broker could be heard boasting, after a few drinks, about all the money he’d made selling oil tankers to the mysterious companies that have popped up in Dubai and Hong Kong in recent years. Everyone he spoke to knew what he really meant, and what these companies are really for.

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