When Donald Trump named a little-known US energy consultant as part of his foreign policy team, the adviser’s ex-boss was puzzled; how could the relatively junior banker he knew in Moscow a decade ago be qualified to brief a presidential candidate?
Carter Page, who worked in Russia at US investment bank Merrill Lynch, paints an impressive picture of his three-year stint from 2004, saying on his company’s website that he advised on ‘key’ transactions involving some of the country’s biggest energy groups.
But Sergey Aleksashenko, who became head of the bank’s Moscow operation toward the end of Page’s assignment, expressed doubts about …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
