"China" and "honesty": who is behind the new shareholder of "Rosneft"
Deputy Prime Minister of China Van Tsishan (left), Vladimir Putin and Igor Sechin, 2009. Photo: government.ru Last year, the Glencore consortium and the sovereign fund of Qatar bought 19.5% of Rosneft shares. The details of the transaction were shrouded in a secret, but it brought the Russian budget 710.8 billion rubles. Now, most of the then package bought from the consortium is redeemed by the Chinese CEFC China Energy, or Huasin.