LONDON: The battle for some of Russia’s richest gold mines has an unusual cast of characters: the scion of one of Europe’s great banking families, a Kazakh tycoon with his own cryptocurrency, hedge fund DE Shaw, and mystery shareholders.
They’re all part of a new fight for control over Petropavlovsk Plc, a London-listed miner.
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