provided by his company, he started to feel better. b.p. had to cash out of the 50% stake and ended up forced to sell it to the russian state oil company. it was a deal that was brokered by vladimir putin. b.p.'s russian oligarch partners did very, very well with this deal forced by putin. the alpha group partners got $27 billion for their stake in the venture. one of the partner was a man named hermann conn. he has an estimated fortune of $10 billion and gets a mention in the dossier specifically his company's closeness to vladimir putin. an alpha group deny any wrongdoing and are suing buzz feed. but today, hermann conn found himself in the news for a