of money himself for dolling out contracts for the russian military but specifically what they re reporting now is that the contracts he was doling out, the person he was steering billions of rubles worth of business to in this scheme, was this guy. and the reason he looks oddly familiar to you is because he is becoming famous in the united states in his own right. he s the guy they call putin s chef. he is the billionaire oligarch close to putin and he became that because of these huge contracts from the russian defense ministry. reportedly from this guy arrested and sitting in jail in north carolina. he is believed to operate the mercenary operation in syria that put russian paid fighters into direct battle with u.s. troops. he is also famously the guy who ran the internet research agency
even the united states, they are in on it. on the statement. any importance to that? it is all great but the policy should be to go after vladimir putin and oligarchs. on that point the united states introduced new sanctions against 19 individuals, 5 organizations that had to do with meddling in the american election in 2016 and the statement from the us that cyberattacks including the energy grid, that is going after some of the oligarchs. vladimir putin s chef is an oligarch. you mean chef he is also a mercenary operation in syria. there are more direct targets no one has gone after, the famous
as absolute as as we once thought notably arks answer to every seventh there was. dozens of down hundreds of russian mercenaries died in the u.s. air strikes but questions have been of why and some people are saying that russia perhaps perhaps let this mercenary operation which was being carried out to take an oil field near tears or for assad s purposes purposes that russia has not signed on for in that particular instance maybe russia allowed them that are russian to fail to send assad a message that he had better clear his actions with russia all right journalist alec leung reporting for us now from moscow alex thank you very much. you re watching d.w. new still to come the bundesliga served up two sensational matches on sunday labor has been locked horns with shocker in a battle for the champions league and desperate cologne went up against like that we will have all the highlights for you. but first a chinese carmaker has taken