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Rex Tillerson, who if Donald Trump has his way will be America’s next secretary of state, was for a long time the director of an American-Russian oil firm located in the tax haven of the Bahamas.
In 1998 Tillerson became the director of Exxon Neftegas, ExxonMobil’s Russian subsidiary, according to documents leaked to The Guardian on Sunday. ExxonMobil said on Sunday that Tillerson stopped being a director of Exxon Neftegas in 2006, after becoming the company’s CEO.
While there is nothing illegal or even unethical about Tillerson’s involvement in Exxon Neftegas, it had not been reported prior to The Guardian’s story.
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Source: Salon
