Former Stasi officer and Putin ally Matthias Warnig seeks to restart Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with backing from U.S. investors, FT reports
Matthias Warnig, an ex-Stasi officer in East Germany, ex-head of the board of directors of the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, and ex-managing director of the Swiss parent company of Nord Stream 2, is lobbying for the relaunch of the natural gas pipeline. According to a recent report by the Financial Times , which cites anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, Warnig is doing so with the backing of American investors.