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London Evening Standard Sold To Former KGB Spy For ‘Nominal Fee’

Jan 21, 2009 3:15 AM

As the Daily Mail‘s own Richard Littlejohn might put it, you couldn’t make it up. In a statement to the City today, DMGT confirms it has agreed to sell the London Evening Standard to Russian oligarch and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev for a “nominal fee”, reported to be as…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, DMGT, evening standard, kgb

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