Putin Aide’s Wife Helped Buy Corus Stock Via Trust, Usmanov Says
This article is for subscribers only.
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, an investor in Facebook Inc., said a trust for the wife of one of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s deputies helped him buy stock in Corus Group, a British steelmaker now part of Tata Steel.
The trust for Olga Shuvalova, wife of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, was a partner while the billionaire invested in Corus from 2003 to 2005, Usmanov said. Shuvalov was an economic aide to then-President Putin at the time.