Donald Trump’s commerce secretary Wilbur Ross has moved to distance himself from links to Russian energy company Sibur and its sanctioned shareholders following a flurry of global press coverage this weekend.
Leading global publications were awash with headlines connecting Ross to Vladimir Putin’s son in law and other Sibur investors who are under some form of US sanction.
The link comes via shipping company Navigator Holdings (NVGS), in which Ross is a major shareholder, and energy company Sibur, which contributed almost 10% of the shipowner’s revenue in 2016.
