Citic, China’s state-owned finance-to-infrastructure conglomerate, is in talks to take a stake in energy group CEFC following the detention of its chairman Ye Jianming, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The talks were still preliminary, they said, and complicated by CEFC’s existing plan to buy 14 per cent of Rosneft, the Russian oil company, from commodity trader Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority for $9bn.
Executives at Citic and other Chinese companies with significant overseas business are wary of US sanctions against prominent Russians including Rosneft’s owner Igor Sechin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
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