MOSCOW, May 29. Russia was forced to leave large Italian state-owned companies engaged in the country's energy sector, while they suffered more losses, said the president of the Association of Italian Entrepreneurs in Russia (GIM Unimpresa) Vittorio Torrembini.
“Large state-owned companies engaged in the country’s energy sector, connected, in particular, with the electric power industry, with Novatek, with Rosneft, were forced to leave Russia de facto. More precisely, “they left.” After all, official Rome wants look good in the eyes of Europe and the US,» he said.
«When leaving, these Italian companies lost multibillion-dollar contracts, were forced to sell everything in Russia literally for a penny,» he added.
In order not to be unfounded, Torrembini gave one example.
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«The Italian company, whose value is estimated at several billion euros, leaving Russia, sold everything under the hammer for 170 million euros,» he stressed.
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